If you can hit your opponent’s nose more than he can hit yours, you too will taste victory.
That’s no dog,” he said. “It looks like a monkey and a dog fell in love and had babies and this is the ugly one they didn’t want.
I’m afraid I can’t let you take it. I could, you know, give you its big toe or something, as a keepsake, but that’s about it.
Tricking?” Ravel said. “I wouldn’t call it tricking, no. Manipulating? It could possibly be seen as manipulating.
And look at me now. Seriously. Look at what all that action and adventure has done to me. I’m a frickin’ basket case. – Valkyrie.
The great Skeleton Detective, in the flesh – figuratively speakin’, of course.
My magic,” Valkyrie said, looking at him. “Darquesse took my magic.
I didn’t think they even existed. They’re in stories, in legends, and we have Dragon Eye jewels and dragon threads and dragon this and that, but no one ever seriously thought these things came from actual dragons. That would have been... ridiculous. – Skulduggery.
A little internal bleeding never hurt anyone. – Valkyrie.
You didn’t hear me right. I didn’t say ‘a mug of poisoned tea’. I said ‘a poisoned mug of tea’. It was the handle I poisoned... Laken Cross, you are an evil man for coming here to kill me and you’re an evil man for forcing me to do what I had to do. I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in. – Finbar.
This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt, – China Sorrows.
We have this idea for a ‘Where’s Wally’ type thing, except in ours, you’d have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids. – Donegan.
They’ve called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine.
First rule of being a detective,′ the Doctor said a he knocked on the door, ’is to observe. Observe the obvious, and observe the not-so-obvious. Observing the not-so-obvious is not as easy as observing the obvious, but if it were easy everyone would be at it.
Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel’s betrayed us. Valkyrie is... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we’ve fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. – Skulduggery.
This is a very important undercover operation which you are endangering just by talking to us.” He opened his jacket. “Look, I have a gun. I am Detective Inspector Me. This is my partner, Detective Her.” The traffic warden frowned. “Her?” “Me,” said Stephanie. “Him?” “Not me,” said Skulduggery. “Her.” “Me,” said Stephanie. “You?” said the traffic warden. “Yes,” said Stephanie. “I’m sorry, who are you?” Stephanie looked at him. “I’m Her, he’s Me. Got it? Good.
A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess. – Gordon.
Once again, events beyond her control had dragged her into the middle of things. China was not impressed.
For a long time, I thought the love they shared was enough to heal them both. Not of physical wounds, but the invisible wounds we all carry around with us.
What is it with you women? You come into out lives, you take everythin’! Throughtout the years you got little peces of me, of my very soul, and now? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even shave? – Billy-Ray Sanguine.