Quotes from Derek Landy

I'm hardly going to abandon my weapon right before the killing stroke, just so I can give my opponent a sporting chance.

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.

We promised them power.

Don't you all have somewhere else to be? It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay.

And that was how Sebastian travelled across this alien landscape, trundling along on Lily's yellow scooter, his black coat flapping behind him, like some weird, majestic bird. On a scooter.

Bravery, after all, isn't the absence of fear. Bravery is the acknowledgement and the conquering of fear.

Glen jogged back. "What? What are you laughing about?" "Nothing," said Amber, trying to contain herself. "Did you learn anything?" "No," said Glen. "Turns out that old guy is German and doesn't speak a word of English." "Then what were you arguing about?" Glen looked puzzled. "How should I know?

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is a wo and a lost; there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in-between is still left to fight for.

Sometimes the most comforting thing in the world was a hug.

It pleases me to meet you, Valkyrie. I've heard stories." "Good stories or bad stories?" "All stories are good stories," he smiled, "even the bad ones.

Doors are for people with no imagination" - Skulduggery Pleasant

becoming the fine, upstanding law-enforcement official you see before you with gravy dripping down his chin.

War is a drastic thing,

Are there children out there? Um, yes sir, they're all children. Run a few down. Sir? Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare 'em off.

The Sparrow flies South for Winter" - Skulduggery Pleasant

Her dad came down the stairs, picked up the passport and opened it. "This isn't mine," he said. "This belongs to an ugly man wearing a stupid expression.

And I didn't think I had to buy you a present to prove that you're important to me.

I impressed them by attacking an entire battalion of Mevolent's troops on my own." "You slipped," said Shudder. "Stop saying that. I did not slip." "I was there. You slipped and fell down the hill and rolled into their camp." "Aggressively. I rolled aggressively into their camp." "I had to save you." "Why do you always say it like that?

Still, he didn't like being old.

She'd had a lot of practice at closing off the part of herself that felt sad about things like this.

No?" Valkyrie asked. "You don't have anyone strapped to a table somewhere, their ribcage open, their organs on a nearby tray while they look around, hallucinating friends and family come to rescue them? No?

I don't like your tone." "I don't like your shoes.

You shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying something that other people don't. Well, apart from torture, but that's probably the only exception

Oh my God …" China stared at him. "You are actually thicker than you look.