Valkyrie Cain Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. He loved flowers, I loved flowers, and wasn't it beautiful that our mutual appreciation could transcend our various differences and somehow bring us together?

David Sedaris

#4. Here lies Valkyrie Cain, who died heroically after falling of a train." At least it rhymed.

Derek Landy

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

Derek Landy

#6. Katy had her Bible out. She wanted to read from 2 Corinthians, the first chapter, where the Christians were told that the sufferings of Christ would overflow into their lives as surely as the comfort would.

Karen Kingsbury

#7. A blanket could be used to stop the bleeding. But dammit you're going to have to hurry, before I bleed out all over the carpet.

Jarod Kintz

#8. That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around and talked to my good friend and partner, Valkyrie Cain.

Derek Landy

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

Derek Landy

#10. 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

#11. For now Valkyrie remembered where she had seen that name before. In the Book of Names, in that final column. Next to Stephanie Edgley, next to Valkyrie Cain. Her true name. The only name that ever really mattered.
Darquesse.

Derek Landy

#12. 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

#13. So you've finally chosen a name."
"Yes. And I'm leaving. Right now."
"Maybe you stand some chance after all. Before you go, will you do me the honour of introducing yourself?"
"Of course," Stephanie said right before she walked out of the apartment. "My name is Valkyrie Cain.

Derek Landy

#14. You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear? - Valkyrie Cain

Derek Landy

#15. When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

Will.i.am

#16. 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

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

Derek Landy

#18. 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

#19. You use a different part of your heart with girls.

Martin Amis

#20. There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

Judy Parfitt

#21. Peace means nothing without freedom.

Derek Landy

#22. The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven."
"Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil

Derek Landy

#23. Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

Albert Bandura

#24. We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.

Sarah Castille

#25. 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

#26. Well, yeah, but she looks, like, twenty-two. And she acts like a four-year-old.

Derek Landy

#27. Hiding's not a bad thing. If you run away, you live to fight another day."

Ella Harper - Paper Princess

Erin Watt