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Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

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Derek Landy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
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Finding
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Someone
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Love
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So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us.
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I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
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Enjoy that?' Tanith said with a little grin. Valkryie grinned back, her eyes bright. 'I keep telling Skulduggery he should get a bike.' What does he say?' He says people who wear leathers, like you, should ride motorbikes. People who wear exquisite suits, like him, should drive Bentleys.
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Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.
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The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. Ryan, he said, stop leaning on my car.
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Found something?...No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more floor.
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I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
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The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.
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Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.
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You're late,' he said. 'I'm beautiful.' 'You're always beautiful.' 'I'm always late too.
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Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.
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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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They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. They've obviously never met me.
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It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay. - China Sorrows -
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You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that? I try my best.
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That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.
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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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And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns.
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We don’t need a cure,” the other zombie said. “That’s right,” Scapegrace nodded. “We’re happy the way we are.” “Happy with the power,” Scapegrace clarified. “Very happy, just the two of us, and there’s nothing wrong with us either. It’s very natural in fact. Nothing to be ashamed of—” “Thrasher,” said Scapegrace, “shut up.
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Stairs, Valkyrie said, disappointed. Not just ordinary stairs, Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. Magic stairs. Really? Oh, yes. She followed him into the darkness. How are they magic? They just are. In what way? In a magicky way. She glared at the back of his head. They aren't magic at all, are they?
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