Here she is, ” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”“Oh, cheers, ” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

How are we going to get out of here?""Oh, escape is easy once you have the right

That was a good day for me, " Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around and talked to my good friend and partner, Valkyrie Cain.

Oh, China. How I have missed you.''And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better.

It would be fun, ” Skulduggery nodded. ”I like kicking Wreath in the face. I haven't had a chance to do it nearly as much as I'd like.

You make a good point, ' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I...''Don't?''Exactly, ' he said happily.

I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.

We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.