Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

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

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

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

I mean you ACRES of harm, ' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.

The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.