Can't it be both? [a brief, humorless laugh.] It's strange... Skulduggery believes that, in time, I'll develop something like the human capacity to feel remorse for my actions. I can't say I've done much more than humor him... But, I feel that, if I did, I wouldn't declare my past dead. And I feel that because I know for a fact that that's something I would absolutely do right now.

[when a game isn't fun anymore, it was never fun. when get tired of a toy, you didn't like it to begin with. and when other people don't like the things you've done, you were never the person who did those things.]