You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery

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.

Without healing, there is no happiness.

If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.