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

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

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.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.""We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

All plots are cliche.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

What you are will show in what you do.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.