Valkyrie smiled patiently. "I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket?

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.

When family really needed you, nothing else mattered.

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.

The bottom line is in heaven!

The future belongs to the educated.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.