“I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.”He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded.“See? It hurts people.”Derek Landy Source: Last Stand of Dead Men
“They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.”Derek Landy Source: Mortal Coil
“He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…”“And this is exactly what I mean.”“Our love is written in the stars.”“And there you go again.”“I love you.”“You bore me.”Derek Landy Source: Death Bringer
“Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.''I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?''She's three months.''She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?”Derek Landy Source: Death Bringer
“Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,keeping her voice low.“The last time we were in this building, we accused theGrand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I thinkwe’ll be waiting long.”Derek Landy Source: The Faceless Ones
“This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?”Derek Landy Source: Death Bringer
“Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”“Oh, cheers,” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.”Derek Landy Source: Death Bringer
“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.”Derek Landy Source: Dark Days
“Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thoughtsomething awful was happening.”She frowned. “Something awful was happening. It could havegot stuck in my hair.”Derek Landy 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.”Derek Landy Source: Last Stand of Dead Men
“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.”Derek Landy Skulduggery PleasantSource: Skulduggery Pleasant
“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.”Derek Landy Source: Death Bringer
“Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of herfather’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as henodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverwarewhen he thought no one was looking”Derek Landy Skulduggery PleasantSource: Skulduggery Pleasant
“And what, if you don’t mind me asking, is really important?”Valkyrie holds her hand palm upwards, and it starts to glow from within. She smiles at him.“Magic,” she says.”Derek Landy Source: The Dying of the Light