Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

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.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.

the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.

The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.