Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?'I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

Dear God, woman,'said Will. 'Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?

Trains are great dirty smoky things,' said Will. 'You won't like it.' Tessa was unmoved. 'I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?' 'I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it.' 'But think how entertaining for sightseers,' said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

Will stared down at his hands. 'My whole life wrecked, destroyed...' 'You're seventeen,' Magnus said. 'You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

I wouldn't change it,' Simon said. 'I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.

...Wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.