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.

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

The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:"If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...I would drink IT.

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them