skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

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.

Oh my god you're thicker than you look

Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.

Embrace your inner lunatic.

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables.

"Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.