Doran stood on the dais, fists clenched. "All right," he said. "Let's do it, come on. Charge me up."
Skulduggery tapped the controls. "Just give me a moment…"
Doran's leg was shaking. "Come on," he said. "Hurry up. Haven't got all day."
"Just one more moment…"
"Here," said Doran. "You have used this on people before, right?"
"Hmmm?" Skulduggery said. "People? No, not on people. Ah, here we go."
The dais lit up.
"Oh, I don't know about this," said Doran. "I don't think I want to do this…"
"You'll be fine." Skulduggery said.
"How do you know?"
"I don't."
The hair stood up on Valkyrie's arms and light filled the room. The Accelerator wined like an animal, the wine getting louder and louder and the dais beginning to tremble.
"I want to get off!" Doran shouted. "I want to get off!"
"You can't get off!" Skulduggery shouted back over the roar. "If you get off you'll die!"
"I'll die?"
"I don't know," Skulduggery shouted. "Probably.


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“Isn’t t...
DEREK LANDY
Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die,...
DEREK LANDY
I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why ...
DEREK LANDY
That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.
DEREK LANDY
Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
...
Nobody moved, or said a...
DEREK LANDY
We're authors, too," Donegan said, "and we've been trying to get into the picture-book market. We ha...
DEREK LANDY
It's not so bad."
Melancholia looked at her. "You're lying."
"I'll get used to it. So will...
DEREK LANDY
Mum said earlier what a lovely dress
you’re wearing.”
Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled lik...
DEREK LANDY
I should go in alone," Valkyrie said, speaking loudly to be heard. "If we both go in, it'll look to ...
DEREK LANDY
It's a very small object to be capable of doing many wonderful things, don't you think?"
"It do...
DEREK LANDY
He could be a butterfly dreaming he's a man."
"Well, he's not. He's a big fat man dreaming he's...
DEREK LANDY
The dart is loaded with enough sedative to bring down a—”

“Small elephant?”
...
DEREK LANDY
Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was...
DEREK LANDY
You’re seventeen. You’re supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents....
DEREK LANDY
He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thin...
DEREK LANDY
Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the...
DEREK LANDY
Peace means nothing without freedom.
DEREK LANDY
Now, before you begin to worry, the section of the gaol that I’m standing in is completely secure....
DEREK LANDY
Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
DEREK LANDY
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant
DEREK LANDY
I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Ber...
DEREK LANDY
Tides do what tides do–they turn.
DEREK LANDY
He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to...
DEREK LANDY
Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?"
"No. But they like surprises. Almost always.
DEREK LANDY
Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly...
DEREK LANDY
Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, ...
DEREK LANDY
The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anyth...
DEREK LANDY
Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in h...
DEREK LANDY
You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just d...
DEREK LANDY
You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.
DEREK LANDY
Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.”
Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.
DEREK LANDY
Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.
DEREK LANDY
strike from the shadows, disapear into darkness
DEREK LANDY
I wouldn't mind a sister either."
"Any chance of that happening?"
"I can't see what would ...
DEREK LANDY
I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?
DEREK LANDY
When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm n...
DEREK LANDY
She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity."
"You're...
DEREK LANDY
Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?'
'One of t...
DEREK LANDY
Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough
DEREK LANDY
Can I just point something out?" Fletcher asked. "That is an awful plan. On a scale of one ...
DEREK LANDY
I've had years to see the funny side.
DEREK LANDY
Stephanie: Why can't you break in? You broke into the Vault
Skulduggery: That's different
DEREK LANDY
Cheer up everyone, since we're all going to die horribly anyway, what's there to be worried about? -...
DEREK LANDY
She held her sword like she was ready to use it on anyone who got close. Darquesse could see her own...
DEREK LANDY
I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Final...
DEREK LANDY
Stephanie thought about the world she’d grown up in, and how different it was from the world she�...
DEREK LANDY
You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know know exactly what that someone has j...
DEREK LANDY
If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a brave and heroic death.
DEREK LANDY
Ah, bless. I've missed her. Do you have bullets?"

"Uh, no."

Skulduggery paused...
DEREK LANDY
What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skud...
DEREK LANDY
[...} What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't kno...
DEREK LANDY
Serpine: Well, Skulduggery? Where is that tired old defiance - the taunting, the goading? Where are ...
DEREK LANDY
Skulduggery: The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your...
DEREK LANDY
Stephanie: I wouldn't mind a sister either
Tanith: Any chance of that happening?
Stephan...
DEREK LANDY
Bravery, after all, isn't the absence of fear. Bravery is the acknowledgement and the conquering of ...
DEREK LANDY
be brave
DEREK LANDY
Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice s...
DEREK LANDY
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice ...
DEREK LANDY
Wow," she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise."
"You are not easy ...
DEREK LANDY
But he's in shackles, right? You beat him?"
"I like to think I beat him in a moral sense, in th...
DEREK LANDY
It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and t...
DEREK LANDY
What's a Dullahan?'
'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.'
'Headless?'...
DEREK LANDY
He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink ...
DEREK LANDY
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice...
DEREK LANDY
So he has no head'
'Thats usually what headless means'
'No head at all?'
'Your really...
DEREK LANDY
Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thought
something awful was happening.”<...
DEREK LANDY
Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? The urge for dest...
DEREK LANDY
You can't just sit back on your laurels. You have to constantly innovate.
MARK LANDY
If they do negotiate a lower price, they may open themselves up to litigation by essentially concedi...
MARK LANDY
This should be a highlight of the festival. I think it's a unique event in our area.
JEFF LANDY
If the deals went to shareholders today, we believe Boston Scientific would prevail.
MARK LANDY
I think a lot of folks had not expected them to be back this quickly.
MARK LANDY
I don't see material upside or downside (for Boston Scientific shares) for the next 12 months.
MARK LANDY
[MacMillan] has big shoes to fill and he's inheriting a legacy of 20% earnings growth.
MARK LANDY
While Johnson & Johnson has the clear technology lead, the risk they run is in setting the price. If...
MARK LANDY
I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,
MARK LANDY
We are operating in a large vacuum. It's exceedingly difficult to speculate.
MARK LANDY
It was a great day to get a lot of players a chance to play. Now we can focus on getting ready for d...
LANDY FAEDO
I told my guys before the season that if you win your one-run games then you'll have a great season....
LANDY FAEDO
I was a little concerned. We let two leads get away this week, but Tommy made the pitches and the gu...
LANDY FAEDO
That was great pitching from both guys. They're the top two pitchers in the county.
LANDY FAEDO
The good thing is they come out every day, work hard and do what's asked. And we're pretty demanding...
LANDY FAEDO
Go out and play consistent, not be good, just consistent. Just make less mistakes and put the ball i...
LANDY FAEDO
If we hold it when they are practicing in Latrobe, it will be easy for them to come over here for th...
JEFF LANDY
He needed a place to practice so someone from those two families told him to come to Mt. Pleasant. T...
JEFF LANDY
He told me that he would contact me within the next couple of weeks with any information that he can...
JEFF LANDY
We wanted to have just a few categories and make sure we did this right before we got too crazy this...
JEFF LANDY