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“Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.”

Source: Mortal Coil

“Are you sulking?”
“Me? No. I don’t sulk.”
“You sound like you’re sulking.”
“I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.”

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Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

“But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.”

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Source: Mortal Coil

“And what about magic?”
“What about it?”
“Will you teach me?”
“You don’t even know if you’re capable of doing magic.”
“How do I find out? Is there a test or something?”
“Yes, we cut off your head. If it grows back, you can do magic.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“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.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought”

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Source: Mortal Coil

“By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“It all depends on whatyou're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”
“Oh, cheers,” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“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.”

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Source: Mortal Coil

“He stepped closer to her. "Thank you for saving me," he said softly, and wrapped the bones of his arms around her. Valkyrie smiled and hugged him back.”

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Source: Dark Days

“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.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.”

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“I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thought
something awful was happening.”
She frowned. “Something awful was happening. It could have
got stuck in my hair.”

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Source: Dark Days

“Thank you,” Skulduggery said to her. “I fear he was about to start insulting me.”
“I couldn’t let that happen,” she said. “Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing.”
“You see? You understand me.”

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Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

“With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face.
All he had was a skull for a head.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

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Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

“You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?"
"It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.”

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Source: Playing with Fire

“China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then stopped and peered at her. "Because I'm a skeleton" he explained.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“We may need to focus here.'
'Right. Yes. OK. Turn around.'
'Are you going to throw something at me?'
'What? No, I'm getting out of bed.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity."
"You're saying she's a mood swing?"
He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing."
"Don't even joke about that.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.”

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Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

“We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?"
"Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors ofand it's sequels, and”

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Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

“They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said.
'I daresay I'm not.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.”

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Source: Death Bringer

“Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he
nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware
when he thought no one was looking”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on you losing your head.”
“I didn't lose it. It was stolen.”

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Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

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