You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.