You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.


Derek Landy

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I've had years to see the funny side.
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Ah, bless. I've missed her. Do you have bullets?"

"Uh, no."

Skulduggery paused...
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[...} What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't kno...
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Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby.
"Can it do any tricks yet?"
"I'm sti...
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They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

China glanced at her. "They'...
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Kindness suits you."

"Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.
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It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -
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What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skud...
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It's just so perfuck.
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If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New Yo...
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At least you pay for them.”

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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
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Hello," said Brannoc politely, despite his terrible hangover.
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Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
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Stephanie: Why can't you break in? You broke into the Vault
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Skulduggery: The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your...
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Wow," she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise."
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up
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reject the government's cruel and cynical interpretation.
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- We're winning!

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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Nobody has any rights unless they've got a machine gun.
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I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.
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Yes, world.
Truly.
You disgust me.
Please continue.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
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a very cynical and willful manipulation of an extremely volatile situation.
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He's a young, immature boy used by older and cynical criminals.
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Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.
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It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?

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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
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Is the public more cynical? Yes. There's a perception that we don't bring much to the party.
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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
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If he can't get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot?"
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Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?
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If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me i...
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How are we going to get out of here?"
"Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan."
"...
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They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

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I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.'
'My accent?'
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Oh, China. How I have missed you.'
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Is he all scarred now?”

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I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered.
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Kindness suits you."

"Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.
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He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. ...
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Found something?”
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What would killing the Elders result in?"
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What is it?' Stephanie whispered.
'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.'
She...
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That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them...
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The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
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The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core o...
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Put a smile on that face, Valkyrie. You're unique. Easily as unique as I am."
"Two freaks in a ...
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It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about ...
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It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -
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I’ve got good news and bad news for you, Ryan. The bad news is that you’re the only one in the w...
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Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”
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Doors are for people with no imagination.
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You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last
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It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap.

Darquesse smiled.
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Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make
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Skuld...
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Plans are invitation to disappointment.
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The traffic warden looked up. "This your car?"
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The traffic wa...
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You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?”
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I am Detective Inspector Me. This is my partner, Detective Her."
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It didn't answer.
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You're not used to early mornings, are you?"
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Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the do...
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People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!
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Every human being who has ever lived has the same potential in them for good and evil. Mortal or sor...
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He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…”
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You should have called us. Desmond would have picked you up.'
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I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.'
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You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't re...
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Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.'
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I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.
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This is your last chance to do the right thing.'
'Do you want to attack first, or will I?'
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But if you can confront your inner demons—"

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I have sought you out to cure me.'
'To cure you of what?'
'Of this cursed affliction.'
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You're bored, aren't you.'
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I think zombies are kind of cute.”
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Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.
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Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.'
Skulduggery ...
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We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding."
"Stop right ...
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We punch people, Valkyrie. That’s who we are. Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.
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This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?"
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You don't treat me like a child."
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It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, your
beard’s stupid.”
“Isn’t t...
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That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.
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Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
...
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We're authors, too," Donegan said, "and we've been trying to get into the picture-book market. We ha...
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It's not so bad."
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Mum said earlier what a lovely dress
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It's a very small object to be capable of doing many wonderful things, don't you think?"
"It do...
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He could be a butterfly dreaming he's a man."
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The dart is loaded with enough sedative to bring down a—”

“Small elephant?”
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Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was...
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You’re seventeen. You’re supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents....
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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...
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Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the...
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Peace means nothing without freedom.
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Now, before you begin to worry, the section of the gaol that I’m standing in is completely secure....
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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
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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...
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Tides do what tides do–they turn.
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He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to...
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Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?"
"No. But they like surprises. Almost always.
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Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly...
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Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, ...
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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