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21 " She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing. "
― Derek Landy , Last Stand of Dead Men (Skulduggery Pleasant, #8)
22 " Dexter, please put your shirt on. Valkyrie’s getting distracted.”“I’m not,” she said, then smiled at Vex. “You don’t have to put your shirt on. "
23 " This book is dedicated to you.Whether you are a Minion or a Skuttlebug or just, you know, a normal person, it’s because of you that I get to do what I love and laughingly call it work.I know some of you by name and some of you by sight (and some of you by smell, but let’s not get into that) but there are still countless others I have never met, and to all of you I say thank you for your support, your passion, and your lunacy. "
24 " Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind. "
25 " I know she was sent to keep an eye on me and then kill me, but … do you think she did fall in love with me, even just a small bit?”“Not really.”“Oh.”“She stuck a knife in you.”“Yeah.”“That’s rarely a good sign.”“I suppose.”“But hey, you had some good times, didn’t you?”“Yes. Yes we did.”“Before she stabbed you. "
26 " They have a name for it these days. They have a name for everything these days. They call it Second Lifetime Syndrome, and it happens when a sorcerer watches her family and friends age and die around her. You’ll latch on to other mages from that moment on, because what’s the point of going through all that pain again? Valkyrie, there are some stark realities you have to face. You’re going to look the way you do for the next eighty years. In two hundred years, you’ll look twenty-five. You won’t be able to form attachments to mortals. They will start to notice something is different about you when they’re lined and saggy and you’re still young and perky. You’re going to have to say goodbye to your parents before they start to ask questions. "
27 " He looked at Ghastly. "Thoughts?""I want to kill Sanguine," was the first thing Ghastly said. "And I want to do it slowly, in front of a lot of people. Using a hammer "
28 " With the speed of a cobra, Scapegrace lashed out at Bagatelle, catching him on the ear with a vicious chop. He ducked as Shun reached for him, and spun with a kick that came dangerously close to landing. Mud fired off a punch that Scapegrace blocked with his chin, and Scapegrace countered with a flailing hand to the air as he fell. "
29 " Ghastly Bespoke’s opinions were not always right. It was his opinion, for example, that he could stand with his back to you and you wouldn’t stick a knife in it. How wrong he was. "
30 " With age comes wisdom, you ever hear that?""I did, but I've found that wisdom has a cut-off point of around one hundred and twenty years. Once you reach that, you're really as wise as you're going to get. "
31 " Should we change our name?" Saracen asked. "The Dead People, perhaps?""The Dead Non-Gender-Specific Persons?" Vex suggested."Dead Men and a Girl? Dead Men and a Little Lady? "
32 " Tricking?" Ravel said. "I wouldn't call it tricking, no. Manipulating? It could possibly be seen as manipulating. "
33 " Our investigation is ongoing," he said."Do you know something you're not telling me?""Yes.""Right. Well, at least someone knows something. That's a nice bloody change. "
34 " You didn't hear me right. I didn't say 'a mug of poisoned tea'. I said 'a poisoned mug of tea'. It was the handle I poisoned... Laken Cross, you are an evil man for coming here to kill me and you're an evil man for forcing me to do what I had to do. I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in. - Finbar "
35 " We have this idea for a 'Where's Wally' type thing, except in ours, you'd have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids. - Donegan "
36 " Do not do that!" it said. "I have a delicate heart!""That it keeps in a jar on its desk," Clarabelle whispered loudly. "
37 " Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel's betrayed us. Valkyrie is... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. - Skulduggery "
38 " Before her mum could start crying, Valkyrie’s dad stood up. He cleared his throat, pondered a bit, and then began. “It is no secret that I always wanted a son. "
39 " I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in. "
40 " Look what the mortals are doing to themselves. Look at what they’ve done to the world. They’re bleeding the planet dry. They’re poisoning the air, the land and the sea, and they know exactly what they’re doing, "
