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"He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him."
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"A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?"

"If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine."

"We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.''What's the easy way?''You leave immediately.''And what's the hard way?''We make you leave.'Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?"

"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."

"The Engineer smiled (internally, for of course it had no mouth). It was feeling good. It was feeling optimistic. Moving at its current speed, it would arrive back in Ireland in plenty of time to shut everything down before a series of overloads and power loops inevitably led to a sequence of events which would, in turn, eventually lead to the probable destruction of the world. The Engineer wasn't worried.And then the truck hit it."

"I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through."

"Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies."

"So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out."
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"No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn't born yet!"

"They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them."

"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."

"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."

"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."

"Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!"
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