“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”
“Shay strolled alongside me, humming 'Here Comes the Bride,' until I punched him in the kidney.”
“The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.“What is it?” she whispered.“It’s a box,” he whispered back.“What kind of box?”“A wooden one.”She gave him a look.”
“Be yourself, until you bleed.”
“The sun was crouched on its haunches over the Pioneers. The mountains were both purple and brown, the angle of light hitting the moiré of pine and fir and bleeding out a smoky mirage that made the valley seem to tremble. It was a sight. We both looked.”