Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

But listen up Alex Rider.

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.