Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?

Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.

Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.

I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Wherever we are, we are as one

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.