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You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

Derek Landy

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Derek Landy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
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Arrest
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Murder
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Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked, keeping her voice low. “The last time we were in this building, we accused the Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think we’ll be waiting long.
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Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.
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Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?
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Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.
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I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.
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You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery
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Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.
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You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved his hand. 'Oh, I was only joking about that. I don't really think you murdered someone. Unless you did, in which case I reserve the right to say I knew it all along.
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Desmond, don't poke the baby!'... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!'.
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I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
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The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. Who are you? I'm... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I... built the cellar for you? Oh, the Torment said. You. Why are you back? I thought you were dead. It would have been nice if you were dead
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Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I’m ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don’t have dragon wings, I don’t breathe fire, I’m only eight feet tall and I’ve never eaten a newborn that didn’t have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What’s yours?
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I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.
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You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed...It's magnificent.
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Are you taking my hat hostage?
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Tides do what tides do – they turn.
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Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.
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You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that? I try my best.
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I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.
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