Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions.With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy...

Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I’ve got grace management issues.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

The kitchen. The bathroom. The yin and yang of the household.

Skul-man!’ he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. ‘Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!’ Skulduggery nodded. ‘Just got back.

Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?

Love is a kind of warfare.

To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don’t worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They’ll never get to be swans

Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our own?””No, we’re going to find a way to let our...

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I’d have said a third. But I don’t have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my...

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

If you’re so keen on me being healthy then you should have no problem accepting me for the way I am. That’s what’s healthy, Mom. Not being focused on all this freaky weight-loss stuff.

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

They’re not going to arrest you,’ Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. ‘They might glare at you and say angry words, but they won’t arrest you. Well, they might arrest you. There’s a...

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

When did you get so clever?””When I realized I wasn’t as clever as I thought.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

I won’t be stuck in traffic ’til I see how rugged my path isAnd right now I’m loving how fast my troubles are fastingNo they don’t bother me oh realizing I’m psychopathicA wild beast, baby...

This isn’t the first time I’ve used this, and the test subject showed no signs of impaired cognitive ability.””Who was the test subject?” asked Aurora.”I test everything out on myself before taking it into the...

Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s.

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.

«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»

In flew influence, and out fluttered humility.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

What’s the point in having a mind if you don’t use it to make judgements?

Part of me wanted to give him a piece of my mind. He didn’t get it as a whole, so I will keep my peace.

My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby’s best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it....

He things we think he’s a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn’t know we know he’s a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really...

Politically this is very, very clever, … It puts the White House on the defensive on the whole issue of job outsourcing. There could be some Republicans (in Congress) intrigued by this. But it’s way...

I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.

You can make a new friend but you can’t make an old one.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

When push comes to shove, I’m going to figure out that this door needs to be pulled to be opened.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will...

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to...

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you’re always planning something.

I don’t expect you to except me, but I do expect you to accept me.