try me on any day that doesn't end in y - Jace

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.

I don't believe in atheists. I have never seen a real one.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud

Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.