They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not.

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

Doors are for people with no imagination.

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven." "Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Art is pain. And so is life.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.

My conversations with Trump supporters have left me with more questions than answers.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.