The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

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 only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worth—in the end

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.