Midnight Quotes

“trust you with my life,” Skulduggery said. “Just not necessarily my car.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Just the usual,” Valkyrie said before Skulduggery could answer. “People with strange names doing strange things for strange reasons.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“I've always found that ex-girlfriends with bodies are better than ex-girlfriends who are just internal organs locked away in a box somewhere. But I'm old-fashioned like that.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“I keep imagining that one of these days I’ll grow up and become someone who knows what they’re doing, but so far that hasn’t happened.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“For a long time, I thought the love they shared was enough to heal them both. Not of physical wounds, but the invisible wounds we all carry around with us.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Has it occurred to you, after all these years together, that I just might not be flappable?”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“I’m not sure if I can emphasise this enough, but do not drop me.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Let’s go.” He wrapped an arm round her waist. “Are you sure you don’t want to try this alone?” “If I knew I’d be able to fly, no problem,” she said. “But I told my folks I’d be there for roast dinner, and if I plunge to my death before that they’ll just think it’s rude, so …” They lifted up and drifted beyond the ledge, the world opening up beneath them. Skulduggery redirected the freezing winds so that not a single hair was disturbed on Valkyrie’s head. It was strangely quiet as they flew, surrounded by the howls and shrieks of the mountains but tucked away from it all. “The thought has occurred to me that maybe you’ll only start flying when you absolutely need to,” Skulduggery said. “Do not drop me.” “Indulge me for a moment. The range of your powers is still largely unknown to us, yes? You can fire lightning from your fingertips, you certainly have destructive potential, and you have the burgeoning psychic abilities of at least a Level 4 Sensitive. Plus, you have flown before.” “Hovering is not flying.” “I bet if I were to drop you, you’d fly.” “I’m not sure if I can emphasise this enough, but do not drop me.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Don’t act offended. You wear a bag on your head.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“She wasn’t going to let the voice win today. She wasn’t going to let all those bad feelings come crashing down on her, like they had so many times in the past. She was getting better.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“That’s your first and only warning. You do that again and I’ll kill her and throw her body in a ditch. We’re going to play a little game, Valkyrie. Do you like games? I hope you do. This is a fun game. I call it Let’s Save Alice. The objective is simple. You’ve got to find her before midnight. That’s it. The rules are: you have to do this alone. Omen didn’t factor into my plans, but let’s face it – even if you take him with you, you’re still basically alone. So, when this call ends, you leave your own phone where it is, you leave those little shock sticks of yours behind, you don’t tell anyone – especially not the skeleton – and you and the Darkly boy get in your car and you drive. Are you with me so far?”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Does this mean we’re now sharing the Bentley?” Skulduggery stiffened. “Dear me, no. Not in the slightest.” She clutched the key to her chest. “You mean I now own the Bentley? You’re giving her to me?” “OK, I’m changing my mind about this whole thing,” he said, and reached for the key. “No take backsies,” said Valkyrie, and shut the door.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Sometimes I forget that being a skeleton is unusual,”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“It wouldn’t be imminent death, though, would it? You’d catch me. There’s no threat there. You’d save me because saving me is what you do, just like saving you is what I do. The only thing that dropping me would accomplish is to annoy the hell out of me.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“The thought has occurred to me that maybe you’ll only start flying when you absolutely need to,”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“They lifted up and drifted beyond the ledge, the world opening up beneath them.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Drive very slowly. Especially round corners. And along straight roads.” “Can you please trust me?” “I trust you with my life,” Skulduggery said. “Just not necessarily my car.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Alice took back her hand and the god’s appendage withdrew from above them, taking Cadaverous with it. Alice came over. She held out her hand, showed Valkyrie the tiny Cadaverous Gant, lying helplessly in one of the creases of her palm. Then Alice looked at Valkyrie, smiled, and clapped.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Do you want to see my dolls?” Alice asked. “I have princess dolls and soldier dolls. Today, the princess dolls rescued the soldier dolls from the evil dragon.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“an elderly man with a face that longed for a beard it didn’t have.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“I trust you with my life,” Skulduggery said. “Just not necessarily my car.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Serafina of the Unveiled. Mevolent’s wife.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“That’s the problem you face when you deal with Arbiters. We don’t answer to anyone. We could arrest you, throw you in a cell, and you’d languish there until we remembered to ask you those questions we’d been meaning to.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“Thanks. But you’re never an interruption, you got that? Now quit being considerate. It’s weird, and it makes me want to laugh nervously and run away.” “You are an odd woman.” “Yep,” she said.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“K-I-L-L-E-D,”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“don’t think so. Molly and Alex are sad sometimes. Sometimes they’re not friends, and they get sad because of that. But I never get sad, even when people aren’t friends with me.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“People gossip even when they don’t care,”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“I know where there’s some blood,” Lily said.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“War is a drastic thing,”
― Derek Landy, Midnight

“We promised them power.”
― Derek Landy, Midnight