You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery

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

By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.

He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.