How are we going to get out of here?""Oh, escape is easy once you have the right

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.

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.

Try not to trip, " she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today."I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.