You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

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.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

If you can't be direct, why be?

This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.