We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.

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

So that plan worked out well.' Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."' All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.

Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.' And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.

Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.” “Oh, cheers,” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.