You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that.

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.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Writing is still on my slate.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.