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

Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet.

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

Embrace your inner lunatic.

You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.

You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.

Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.