Skulduggery Pleasant Valkyrie Quotes

#1. That man," Carol said. "The thin man at Gordon's will reading, with the ridiculous name. He's involved in this, isn't he?"
"Skulduggery Pleasant," Valkyrie nodded. "And yes, he is.

Derek Landy

#2. The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
"What is it?" she whispered.
"It's a box," he whispered back.
"What kind of box?"
"A wooden one."
She gave him a look.

Derek Landy

#3. Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.

Joel Shepherd

#4. We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

William Hazlitt

#5. He stood there, looking at her. She glared back, opened her mouth to continue the conversation, but he suddenly turned, walked away, like he'd just remembered that she may look and sound and talk like Valkyrie Cain, but she wasn't Valkyrie Cain.
And she never would be.

Derek Landy

#6. There was something about being a child of divorce ... I'd always felt somehow responsible for everyone's mood. If I was cute and cheerful enough, I believed, everyone would be happy. If they weren't, clearly I wasn't trying hard enough.

Kristan Higgins

#7. Peace means nothing without freedom.

Derek Landy

#8. Kenspeckle: Have you eaten?
Valkyrie: One of your assistants brought me a burger for breakfast
Kenspeckle: I meant, have you eaten sensibly?
Valkyrie: I was very sensible while I was eating the burger. Didn't miss my mouth once

Derek Landy

#9. Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Welwyn Wilton Katz

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

Derek Landy

#11. I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

David Bowie

#12. It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

Derek Landy

#13. I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

Derek Landy

#14. You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last
present you gave me was a stick."
"You wanted a weapon."
"It was a stick."
"It had a bow on it."
"It was a stick."
"I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.

Derek Landy

#15. I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.

Dan Barker

#16. The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

Werner Heisenberg

#17. Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

Jim George

#18. Tanith: How did Skulduggery sound?
Valkyrie: Angry and worried; He's only OK when I'm attacked by people he knows. He'd never even heard of this Sangunie guy

Derek Landy

#19. Valkyrie: Guild doesn't like me
Skulduggery: That's true
Valkyrie: He doesn't like you either
Skulduggery: Now that is mystifying.

Derek Landy

#20. I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.

N. T. Wright

#21. In order to get people to love you, you've got to get some people to hate you

Robert J. Braathe

#22. Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

Derek Landy

#23. The Obama administration has been curtailing press freedom - but that hasn't ended the press' drool-cup worship for their beloved president.

Ben Shapiro

#24. What a knot of history one mistake can become.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. The fate of the world depends upon whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives ..." ~ Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy

#26. The world is run by C students

Al McGuire

#27. What if trying to avoid the future is what triggers it all?

David Mitchell

#28. Skulduggery: I don't know what they are, but there are dozens of them, relatively small, moving as a pack
Valkyrie: They might be kittens
Skulduggery: They're stalking us
Valkyrie: They might be shy
Skulduggery: I don't think they're kittens
Valkyrie: Puppies then?

Derek Landy

#29. Sanguine: You mind if I take pictures? Brought my own camera and everythin'
Valkyrie: Knock yourself out
Sanguine: Thanks
Valkyrie: No, really, run head first into a wall and knock yourself out

Derek Landy