Quotes About Intrigue

And what, if you don't mind me asking, is really important?" Valkyrie holds her hand palm upwards, and it starts to glow from within. She smiles at him. "Magic," she says.

strike from the shadows, disapear into darkness

Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!' Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back.

He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?" "Hurting.

Weren't expecting this, were you, Mr. Detective? Probably thought, once a mountain fell on her, you'd seen the last of our sister, eh?" "To be honest," Skulduggery said, "yes.

Hmmm... that's interesting." "What?" "There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.

Pleasnt tilted his head curiously. "Scaramouch? Scaramouch Van Dreg? Is that you?" Scaramouch smiled nastily. "Oh yes. You have fallen into the clutches of your deadliest enemy." "What are you doing here?

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.

Once again, events beyond her control had dragged her into the middle of things. China was not impressed.

Stephanie, what are you doing here? – Gordon (in the Echo Stone)

Lil' Darlin - Billy-Ray Sanguine

Remember that day I called Valkyrie and told her to take the afternoon off? Yeah, I was stuck in a wall.

Cow - Tanith Low

I know where there's some blood," Lily said.

Skulduggery Pleasant

Chapter 144

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.