About Derek Landy: Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, best known for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.
What's a Dullahan?' 'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.' 'Headless?' 'Yes.' 'Seriously?' 'Yes.' 'So he has no head?' 'That's usually what headless means.' 'No head at all?' 'You're really getting hung up on this headless thing, ...
Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue coun...
The Doctor put his finger to his lips and Martha nodded and followed him as quietly as she could. Wet leaves squelched under her feet. There was movement up ahead: two teenagers, a pale boy and a nervous girl, walked into a clearing. The sun broke th...
He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd...
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? '
Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise, you know? '
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.
It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -
Plans are invitation to disappointment.
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.
But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future w...
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of ...
Wow," she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise." "You are not easy to get along with," Skulduggery said.
Tides do what tides do–they turn.
Doors are for people with no imagination.
Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, , and the next he was dead. , his mind echoed numbly as he ...
He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're no...
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
