“Doors are for people with no imagination.”

“The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.”

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

“People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!”

“Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.”

“Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet.”

“The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.”