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To be honest, adults are pretty useless. 'Cause of their lack of sensitivity. They just get in the way.

Lockwood & Co. - Season 1 Episode 1

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"Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening."

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Dave: "You're not our leader."
Lucy: "No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative."

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Lockwood: "Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto."
George: "Holds true with unmummified ones too. That's the motto I live by."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: The Creeping Shadow

"Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic."

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Sarcasm Irony

It was a time of beginnings and a time of endings.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 5: The Empty Grave

Stop worrying about the past. The past is for ghosts. We've all done things that we regret. It's what's ahead of us that counts.

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Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.

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Tea

I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

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In my eyes, refusing cake is an immoral act.

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Pies & Cakes

I don't know how old the man was... but he was definitely closer to coffin than crib.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 3: The Hollow Boy

"Is it just me," Kipps said, "or does that boy need punching?"
"It's not just you."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: The Creeping Shadow

"Looks?" the skull said. "Who cares about that? It's superficial. Outward appearance doesn't interest me at all. Why do you think I hang around with you?" It chuckled. "Insult aside, that's just one way in which I'm superior to every one of you, except for Cubbins."

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"It wasn't the body," he said. "I've seen worse things in our fridge."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: The Whispering Skull

"Plan F, we follow Plan F, right now."
"Is that the one where we run away?"
"Not at all. It's the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat."

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Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 3: The Hollow Boy

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

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At Lockwood & Co., George was famous for not being able to throw or catch with any accuracy. Back in the kitchen at Portland Row, even the casual passing out of fruit or bags of chips became an exercise fraught with danger.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: The Creeping Shadow

It was higher and shriller than Holly's, so we knew that it was Kipps.

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This was classic Lockwood. Friendly, considerate, empathetic. My personal impulse would have been to slap the girl soundly around the face and boot her moaning backside out into the night. Which is why he's the leader, and I'm not. Also why I have no female friends.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: The Whispering Skull

What, are you queuing now? Just how British are you people? Don't just stand in line! Kill somebody!

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: The Creeping Shadow

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway. It can't really get much worse.

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Let's have the baddish one first,' George said. 'I prefer my misery to come at me in stages, so I can acclimatize on the way.

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A warm feeling filled me. It was made of tea and biscuits and sudden gratitude.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: The Creeping Shadow

George had his faraway look, the one that made him look like a constipated owl.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 3: The Hollow Boy

Who says I'm dying? Did you see the amount of sheer effort it took me to escape the land of the dead? I'm not going back in now!

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 5: The Empty Grave

Ignoring the whispers of the skull, which kept suggesting different, unlikely kitchen utensils that could be used for murder, I sketched out a map of the room.

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Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll settle for the screams of the dying.

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Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.

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If she'd repeatedly fallen over while crossing soft ground, you could have sewn a crop of beans in the chin-holes she left behind.

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It's a commonly known fact that while cats can't stand ghosts, spiders love them.

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More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.

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Ghosts

She was so radiant, it was like the other-light was already on her.

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It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and a bit baffled, like an unintelligent sheep that's taken a wrong turn. But when he put them on again, they went all sharp and steely, more like the eyes of an eagle that eats dumb sheep for breakfast.

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Glasses

Okay, maybe I'd been a little ratty, but there's something about rotting corpses leaping at my face that puts me a bit on edge.

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"Is mindless violence your solution to everything?" The ghost considered. "Pretty much, yeah."

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If you start deporting every shady looking guy with questionable tattoos, who's gonna go to Jets games?

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New York Jets

One downside of our big brains is we're the only creatures who are aware that death is inevitable. Although, if you lined ten dogs in a row and shot them one by one, the dog on the end would probably get the gist by about dog four.

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Brain

Cells couldn't multiply without this, the IKEA instruction manual for life, DNA. DNA is tiny yet comlex, like Tom Cruise.

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Tom Cruise

Knowledge is a paradox. The more one understands, the more one realizes the vastness of his ignorance.

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Knowledge

When you lose everything, that's when you're finally free.

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Loss

We're not defined by what we los. We're defined by what we survive.

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Loss

They're exhausting to inflate, they scare the shit out of you when they pop, and uninflated they just look like a pile of clown-condoms.

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Balloons

This isn't about good or bad. This is about power. And who is allowed to use it.

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Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"

Shameless - Season 3 Episode 12

Restaurants

What can I say, once you go white, you always stay tight. Hey, I think I just insulted myself.

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