Finbar's Quotes

#1. Skulduggery? Where's Skulduggery?"
"I'm here," Skulduggery said. "I was beginning to think you were lost to us."
Finbar's mouth twitched into a brief smile. "Sorry. You're not going to get rid of me so easily.

Derek Landy

#2. I'll stop at nothing less than you

Finbar Connolly

#3. Finbar shook his head. Nope, wouldn't call us friends, exactly. Associates, or ... or ... not colleagues, but ... I mean, we know each other, like, but ...

Derek Landy

#4. You got it, kemo sabe. I'll keep my crucifix close."
"Vampires aren't scared of a crucifix, Finbar."
"I don't plan to wave it at him, I plan to hit him with it. It's really heavy. I figure I can do some considerable damage to his head.

Derek Landy

#5. I mean, I've had the name Finbar for sixteen years, and I've only been punched in the face once.

Flynn Meaney

#6. If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

John Lydon

#7. When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.

Mick Jagger

#8. I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

Lydia Leonard

#9. That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Joaquin Miller

#10. Perfection is only chance.

Tibor Fischer

#11. I'm very busy."
"The sign on the door said closed."
Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you.

Derek Landy

#12. I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!

Kanye West

#13. Tom Cruise's pre-nup lets him keep his money, the kids and Katie Holmes.

Anthony Jeselnik

#14. Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

William James

#15. I'm going to photograph every single person to enter and leave this tattoo parlour."
Finbar rolled his eyes. "And they'll hate that, because people who get dragons drawn on their backs are normally so shy about other people noticing them.

Derek Landy

#16. Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

Charles Darwin

#17. It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.

Juliet Marillier