The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!

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.

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.