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But Nick still had one person left to speak to. Mark. “How did you survive?” he asked as Mark left Simi, who was licking her fingers and joined them by the truck. Mark flashed him a grin. “What? Did you forget the first rule I taught you, boy?” Nick scowled as he tried to remember Mark’s various rules for survival. “Duck urine chases away every living and unliving thing?”
“Nah, that’s number six. Rule number one: I don’t have to outrun the zombie. I just have to outrun you. How you think Eric and Tabitha got captured?” Tabitha laughed. “Oh please. Inspector Gadget over there made a blowtorch out of Eric’s art sealant and a lighter. I’m not sure the house is stil standing, but he got us out of there and Simi covered the rest of our retreat. We’d have gotten away completely had Eric not tripped and I made the mistake of going back for him while Mark was hot-wiring a neighbour’s car.” Nick laughed at more proof Mark wasn’t completely insane.
Never go back for the fallen unless you want to be captured or killed. Unless the fallen was Bubba, who usually had a larger calibre of weapons. Mark sighed. “By the time I realized they weren’t behind me, they were gone and I was sick over it. I really thought they’d gotten eaten. But luckily I saw your girlfriend under attack and, with Simi’s help, was able to get her to safety.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1))
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What I’d learned so far about Tether was inconclusive, but completely sketchy. I couldn’t believe that every day, people sent millions of perfectly good U.S. dollars to the Inspector Gadget creator’s Bahamian bank in exchange for digital tokens conjured by the Mighty Ducks guy and run by executives who were targets of a U.S. criminal investigation.
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Zeke Faux (Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall)
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have to bleach it with happy thoughts of another contender for my heart—Rupert Everett in character as Dr. Claw from the 1999 Inspector Gadget movie
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Sarah Hogle (You Deserve Each Other)
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hate to stereotype, but Troy is a teenage scumbag,
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Inspector Gadget (Perverting the Course of Justice: The Hilarious and Shocking Inside Story of British Policing)
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So what are you doing?” Paul said, tapping the diary.
“Oh, um. Studying.”
His gaze took in the suspect graph and time line, and he raised his eyebrows. “For what?”
I blinked, at a loss for a response. I didn’t want to lie, but I couldn’t see telling him the truth. I’d been sitting here trying to visualize myself as Veronica Mars, all smart and badass. But in reality, I felt more like Inspector Gadget with my go-go button stuck in neutral.
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Mindee Arnett (The Nightmare Affair (The Arkwell Academy, #1))
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No, Inspector Gadget. He used to say “go, go, gadget shoes” and stuff like that.
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Dave Villager (Dave the Villager 45: An Unofficial Minecraft Novel (The Legend of Dave the Villager))
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What is he, Inspector Gadget? Jesus. Seems as though there are brains with the beauty.
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Meghan Quinn (Those Three Little Words (The Vancouver Agitators, #2))
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That’s it? C’mon, in the movies you can’t get a Bond villain to shut up. You’re not even going to outline your evil plan for me? Maybe if you pick up your cat and pet it while sitting in an oversized chair, something will come to you.” Was that Bond or Austin Powers? Or Inspector Gadget? It was amazing how easy it was to get those things confused.
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Lish McBride (Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Necromancer, #1))