Derek Landy Quotes: 17

• Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

• We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

  Playing with Fire

• They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,"Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

  Mortal Coil

• Stairs,"Valkyrie said, disappointed."Not just ordinary stairs,"Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes."She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?" "They just are." "In what way?" "In a magicky way."She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?" "Not really.

  Mortal Coil

• It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay."- China Sorrows -

  Mortal Coil

• 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.

  Death Bringer

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

  Death Bringer

• An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said.'I could have tripped.'She stared at him. A moment dragged by.'I'm joking,' he said at last.She relaxed. 'Really?''Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful.

  Playing with Fire

• Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.

  Skulduggery Pleasant

• Plans are invitation to disappointment.

  Mortal Coil

• Emergency Valve Regulators,"she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?"Not really,"he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.

  Kingdom of the Wicked

• 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.

  Death Bringer

• You look angry,"he said."You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me,"she said very, very slowly, "on hold.

  Kingdom of the Wicked

• Of course I want to kill you,"said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.

  Kingdom of the Wicked

• He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked."That's it?"He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're not exactly in a good part of town." "It's got a car alarm." "Don't you, like, cast a spell or something? To keep it safe?" "No. It's a pretty good car alarm.

  Skulduggery Pleasant

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

  Death Bringer

• If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.