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.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

The calm before the storm

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

The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing.

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.