I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.

And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns.

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river.