Parabatai Quotes:

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

- Magnus

topic: Persons, Parabatai, Closeness, Sameness, Brother Zachariah

his parabatai rune was bleeding

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Bleeding, Runes, Parabatai

Not your parabatai any longer.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

topic: Parabatai

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.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

topic: I Love You, True Love, Angel, Eternal Friendship, Special Friend

Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

topic: Best Friend, Brother, Mean, Closeness, Parabatai

Wherever we are, we are as one

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

topic: Better Together, Jem Carstairs, Will Herondale, Parabatai

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

topic: Runes, Said, Shoulders, Parabatai

A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Soul, Half, Parabatai, Runes

It’s me,” he said, and cleared his throat. “I could understand if you didn’t believe me, but I swear on the Angel, Iz, it’s me.” Alec said nothing, but his grip on Jace’s hand tightened. “You don’t need to swear,” he said, and with his free hand touched the parabatai rune near his collarbone. “I know. I can feel it. I don’t feel like I’m missing a part of me anymore.” “I felt it too.” Jace took a ragged breath. “Something missing. I felt it, even with Sebastian, but I didn’t know what it was I was missing. But it was you. My parabatai.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2251, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Angel, Hands, Parabatai, Runes

I know about parabatai,” said Magnus, an angry, dark undercurrent to his voice. “I’ve known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that’s left —?

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Dark, Voice, Magnus Bane, Parabatai, Brother Zachariah

I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1439, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Gone, Half, Jem Carstairs, Shadowhunters

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

topic: Princess, Said, Let Me, Jem Carstairs, Tessa Gray

I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Men, Missing, Parabatai

You swore to stay with me,” he said. “When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.” “We are two people,” said Jem. “Two people with a covenant between us.” Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. “A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you.” “Until death,” Jem replied gently. “Those are the words of the oath. ‘Until aught but death part thee and me.’ Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Children, Thinking, Two, Parabatai

Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Men, Hair, Upset, Brutus, Parabatai

He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sweet, Kindness, Little Sister, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

topic: Loss, Remembrance, Spokes, Parabatai

Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Follow Me, Someday, Jem Carstairs, Clockwork Prince

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Princess, Eye, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Commitment, Wish, Nephilim, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.690, Simon and Schuster

topic: Soul, Clockwork Prince, Persons, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai

Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. “Oh, yes,” he said bitterly. “Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed beyond the river, or turned upon the Wheel, or whatever kind words you want to use to describe leaving this world, I shall find my friend again, my parabatai. But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did!

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hair, Hands, Rivers, Damp, Parabatai

And you won’t leave me?” “No.” Alec said. “No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.” “Never.” Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec wasn’t holding, and pressed it fiercely. “Lightwoods, all together.” She whispered. Jace's hand was suddenly damp where she was holding it, and he realized she was crying, her tears splashing down crying for him, because she loved him; even after everything that had happened, she still loved him. They both did. He fell asleep like that, with Isabelle on one side of him and Alec on the other, as the sun came up with the dawn.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

topic: Parabatai

I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Princess, Love You, Thinking, Tessa Gray, James Carstairs

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Said, Fingers, Jem, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai