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

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

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

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?

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.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.