Quotes from Derek Landy

She said I'd have to die," Valkyrie answered. "Which you have already done," Nye nodded... "The truly tragic thing about all of this," it said, "is that you won't feel any of the great pain I'm about to put you through.

You know when everyone tells you it's painful? You should really believe them." - Valkyrie "Oh, joy," he muttered. "I can't wait for mine. - Fletcher, about the Surge

I am Vaurien Scapegrace," the woman announced, "and I'm here to save the world.

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.

That man," Carol said. "The thin man at Gordon's will reading, with the ridiculous name. He's involved in this, isn't he?" "Skulduggery Pleasant," Valkyrie nodded. "And yes, he is.

I'm not crazy." "I'm not judging you, my dear. Some of my best friends are crazy." He nodded to the corner. "Take Wallace, for example. He's crazy as a loon, aren't you, Wallace?" Valkyrie frowned. "Uh, there's... there's no one there." Meritorious sighed. "That's what we long-term prisoners call dungeon humour. You learn to appreciate it after a few years.

Our investigation is ongoing," he said. "Do you know something you're not telling me?" "Yes." "Right. Well, at least someone knows something. That's a nice bloody change.

You didn't hear me right. I didn't say 'a mug of poisoned tea'. I said 'a poisoned mug of tea'. It was the handle I poisoned... Laken Cross, you are an evil man for coming here to kill me and you're an evil man for forcing me to do what I had to do. I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in. - Finbar

You ask in awful lot of questions." "When I grow up, I want to be a detective just like you." He looked over and saw her grinning. He laughed. "I suppose you do share my penchant for raising Cain.

Ah, bless. I've missed her. Do you have bullets?" "Uh, no." Skulduggery paused. "Excellent.

There's someone I want you to meet," she said, a little nervously. "Before you do, I just want you to know that I didn't like keeping this a secret." She tapped the stone again, and Gordon appeared. Eyes widened. Mouths dropped open. Skulduggery remained still.

We have this idea for a 'Where's Wally' type thing, except in ours, you'd have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids. - Donegan

Do not do that!" it said. "I have a delicate heart!" "That it keeps in a jar on its desk," Clarabelle whispered loudly.

They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine.

Kenspeckle was your friend." "When all this is over, we'll see who's alive and who's dead and then I'll cry, OK?... Clarabelle's going to feel so bad when this is done with.

First rule of being a detective,' the Doctor said a he knocked on the door, 'is to observe. Observe the obvious, and observe the not-so-obvious. Observing the not-so-obvious is not as easy as observing the obvious, but if it were easy everyone would be at it.

Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel's betrayed us. Valkyrie is... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. - Skulduggery

What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?" "Many," Skuduggery said. Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes." "Or make brand-new ones.

Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense. "There is a vegetable-plant hybrid we've been working on, modifying the genes and receptors, mutating the proteins and acids so that they are, in effect, neurotransmitters. Our work on the synapses alone has been quite illuminating." Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense.

What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't know any better, I would swear that you feel a compulsion to disobey authoriy figures." "That can't be what it is," she said. "Well, that's what it seems like." "But I don't view you as an authority figure." "Oh, not this again.

He moved and she moved and he died and she put her sword away.

The world is a scary place, and it's only getting scarier. The American president is a narcissistic psychopath. Fascism,

I'm very busy." "The sign on the door said closed." Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you.

You're late," he said. "I'm beautiful." "You're always beautiful." "I'm always late, too.