Derek Landy, Death Bringer

"I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall."

"The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."

"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."

"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."