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Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, best known for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of young adult's books.

✵ 23. October 1974  •  Other names Дерек Ланди
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Skulduggery Pleasant
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Famous Derek Landy Quotes

“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Is he all scarred now?”

“Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.”

Derek Landy

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

“Bravery is the acknowledgment and the conquering of fear.”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

Derek Landy Quotes about thinking

“I kill a sofa for you and you go and sit in a chair?” Skulduggery asked. “I don’t think you appreciate the sacrifice that has been made for you.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I…'
'Don't?'
'Exactly,' he said happily.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?”

Derek Landy

Source: The Faceless Ones

“Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.”

Derek Landy

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

“It all depends on whatyou're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

Derek Landy: Trending quotes

“I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly.
"Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him.
"Really?"
"god no. That was terrible”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.”

Derek Landy

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

“Dexter, please put your shirt on. Valkyrie’s getting distracted.”
“I’m not,” she said, then smiled at Vex. “You don’t have to put your shirt on.”

Derek Landy

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

Derek Landy Quotes

“Doors are for people with no imagination.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant… The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.”

Derek Landy

“We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“We didn't die,' she said.

Of course not. I'm too clever to die, and you're too pretty.'

I am pretty,' Valkryie said, managing a grin.”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding."
"Stop right there!" shouted one of them.
Skulduggery held his hand to an ear he didn't have.
"What's that?"
"Stop!"
"Keep going?"
"STOP!"
"OK, we'll keep going.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.”

Derek Landy

Source: The Faceless Ones

“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

Source: Death Bringer

“You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“I have sought you out to cure me.'
'To cure you of what?'
'Of this cursed affliction.'
'I cannot cure stupidity.'
Scapegrace frowned.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Guild doesn't like me."
"That's true."
"He doesn't like you, ether."
"That is mystifying.”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?
"Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.”

Derek Landy

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

“Very' is such a strong word…”

Derek Landy

“don't treat me like a child."
He smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an adult.”

Derek Landy

Source: The Faceless Ones

“You're late,' he said.
'I'm beautiful.'
'You're always beautiful.'
'I'm always late too.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.”

Derek Landy

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

“You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated."
"I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.”

Derek Landy

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

“So what does that actually mean?'
'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.'
'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said.
'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Have you killed anyone?” she asked quickly.
“What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into
an art form?”
“But you haven’t actually killed anyone yet, have you? I read
your file.”
He glowered. “Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven’t”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“This isn't funny. She was almost killed.'
'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.'
'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.'
'I just need a name.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?"
"No. But they like surprises. Almost always.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“The sparrow flies south for the winter.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.”

Derek Landy

Source: The Dying of the Light

“I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Tides do what tides do–they turn.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Honesty is, honestly, the best policy,” said Saracen. “But when honesty doesn’t work, lie, and lie convincingly.”

Derek Landy

Source: The Dying of the Light

“I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.”
He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded.
“See? It hurts people.”

Derek Landy

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

“Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It’s lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.”
-Skulduggery”

Derek Landy

Source: The Dying of the Light

“Peace means nothing without freedom.”

Derek Landy

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

“We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.”

Derek Landy

Source: Dark Days

“Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.'
'Do we have the right plan?'
'Not yet.'
'Do we have any plan?'
'Not yet.”

Derek Landy

Source: Death Bringer

“Because I’m an English ninja,” Tanith replied. “We’re just like regular ninjas, except we wear leather and flirt more.”

Derek Landy

Source: Trick or Treat

“You can't leave me alone," she said, following him into the living room.
"Yes," he corrected, "I can. You'll be perfectly safe."
"The front door's off!"
"Well, yes. You'll be perfectly safe as long as they don't come through the front door.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.”

Derek Landy

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

“Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.'

And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.”

Derek Landy

Source: Mortal Coil

“I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“What is it?' Stephanie whispered.
'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.'
She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?'
'I told you what it is, it's a horrible monster. Now shut up before it comes over here and eats us.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Kindness suits you."

"Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.”

Derek Landy

“So that plan worked out well.'

Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."'

All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.”

Derek Landy

Source: Playing with Fire

“It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -”

Derek Landy

Source: Mortal Coil

“Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.”
“Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.”

Derek Landy

Source: Dark Days

“What would killing the Elders result in?"
"Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

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