But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You’re sharp and you’ve got pluck. Don’t waste it.
The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.
Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They’re monsters. But a monster in a suit? That’s basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.
I read the first few,” said Jackaby. “I’ve instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.
We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are,” Jackaby revised.
Names have power… And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. – Eleanor
All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don’t think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don’t lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.
I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, “Shall I tell them the truth?””Have you killed anyone?” he asked, quietly.”No, of course not!””Then I can’t imagine why you shouldn’t.
Oh no. He looks half-dead.” Charlie’s face paled as he eyed the trapper’s wrist and the blood-soaked bandages.”Indeed.” Jackaby nodded. “And if we don’t get him some proper attention soon, he’ll be all dead.
To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You’ve got my middle-C, and I would like it back….Please return Jackaby’s tuning fork. He’s getting even more obnoxious than usual.
I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.