It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, " Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

I mean you ACRES of harm, ' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.