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.

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.

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.

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

how long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see...the sunrise?

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Never depend on a single source of income.