“The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.”

— Derek Landy

Source: The End of the World

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Irish children's writer 1974

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“We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding."
"Stop right there!" shouted one of them.
Skulduggery held his hand to an ear he didn't have.
"What's that?"
"Stop!"
"Keep going?"
"STOP!"
"OK, we'll keep going.”

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