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2d40a94	Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.		Eoin Colfer
24f7637	Punching - 2 shillings Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings Ear chewed off - same as previous Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings Shot in leg - 25 shillings Stab - same as previous Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up		Eoin Colfer
e637d5e	The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.	trick	Eoin Colfer
0a5ef60	It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.	mercy	Eoin Colfer
ece8bf2	Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."		Eoin Colfer
fda67e9	Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.	friendship	Eoin Colfer
1a85a3f	Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.	employment evidence	Eoin Colfer
018a925	She strode across the McGraney boundary without a backward glance, legs cutting twin swatches in the green-black grass. Dawn sunlight simmered on the tip of each blade, and Holly's passage set a surging ripple of light flashing across the meadow. Extraordinary, thought Artemis. What have I lost?	holly-short the-time-paradox	Eoin Colfer
3c4bc95	You still awake?' asked the anesthetist. 'Nope,' I replied.	half-moon half-moon-investigations mystery	Eoin Colfer
6526631	Artemis grabbed her shoulders, for once abandoning his shell of icy composure. "Holly, Holly, speak to me. Your finger is it okay?" Holly wiggled her fingers, then curled them into a fist. "I think so," she said, and whacked Artemis right between the eyes. The surprised boy landed in a snowdrift for the third time that day. Holly winked at an amazed butler. "Now we're even," she said. Commander Root didn't have many treasured memories. B..		Eoin Colfer
e7dce73	even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.	height	Eoin Colfer
3d92919	Oh, how I wish I had already regenerated to become the tall one with the dicky bow, thought the Doctor, who occasionally had visions of his future selves. He is always so fit and agile. I suppose all that incessant running down corridors that he does . . . will do . . . may do, in one of my possible futures . . . is good for something.		Eoin Colfer
8c9a830	he would simply have to repress the emotions he was experiencing. Very unhealthy, psychologically speaking		Eoin Colfer
8bdafad	Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.	history	Eoin Colfer
82e1a8c	Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.		Eoin Colfer
598b88d	Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.	money screwed	Eoin Colfer
f3767fb	Luckily, he had the memory span of a particularly dim goldfish, so with any luck he'd have forgotten all about the comment by the time they'd completed their mission.		Eoin Colfer
726e9ca	Er setzte seine finsterste Miene auf. Bose, sagte er sich, bose, aber hoch intelligent. Und entschlossen, vergiss die Entschlossenheit nicht. [...] Er offnete die Tur. >>Guten Abend<<, grusste er, ganz der perfekte Gastgeber, wenn auch ein hinterhaltiger, boser, intelligenter und entschlossener. Root stand, die leeren Hande demonstrativ ausgestreckt, vor der Tur. Die universale Geste fur: Sieh her, ich trage keine grosse, morderische Waffe.		Eoin Colfer
b54c4b4	Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so ware.		Eoin Colfer
cea9f7e	The gremlin mob turned on Root, and when they saw the triple-barreled blaster on his hip, they kept right on turning. Root grabbed the microphone from behind the desk, and hauled it out to the extent of its cable. "Now hear this," he growled, his gravelly tones echoing around the terminal. "This is Commander Root of the LEP. We have a serious situation above ground, and I would appreciate cooperation from all you civilians. First, I would l..		Eoin Colfer
19ac273	Hat dich jemand reinkommen sehen?" "Ja, das FBI, die CIA, die NSA, die DEA und das MI6. Ach ja, und die GPB." "Die GPB?" "Gesamte Polizeibelegschaft." --		Eoin Colfer
638958d	You didn't foresee a troll-riding dwarf pushing your plane down the runway. You must be losing your touch, Artemis." He"		Eoin Colfer
cc4c94c	Hey," snapped Holly. "This is not the time to blame Artemis." "Thank you," said Artemis. "Finally." "There will be plenty of time to blame Artemis later, when this is resolved."		Eoin Colfer
d9f9c73	Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns & Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe.		Eoin Colfer
cb2c385	They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.	enlightenment knowledge-is-power eoin-colfer	Eoin Colfer
563f8dc	Some people just needed to be stolen from.	eoin-colfer thief stealing conscience	Eoin Colfer
c79e82f	desperate times required judicious risk-taking.	risk	Eoin Colfer
15f7f95	Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.' 'Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting old here.	funny sarcasm	Eoin Colfer
c1ff429	I know what the Book says," snapped Root. "I just wish you weren't so gung ho about it. If I didn't know you better, I'd say there was some human blood in you." "There's no call for that," pouted Cudgeon. "I'm only doing my job." "Point taken," conceded the commander. "I'm sorry." You didn't often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult."		Eoin Colfer
634d7e4	Probably is absolutely the best I can do.		Eoin Colfer
0b0a402	Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten.		Eoin Colfer
78f182d	No one's ever really ready for a troll.	troll preparation	Eoin Colfer
664c629	Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition."		Eoin Colfer
0bc0ec3	Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time...		Eoin Colfer
1e61035	When Holly Short had opened the door of her makeshift basement cell, she had found her helmet bouncing on the spot in front of her with a 3-D image of Foaly's face projected onto it. "That is really creepy,"		Eoin Colfer
fc28753	Mortals, screw 'em.		Eoin Colfer
64ca982	In dieser Nacht wurde Geschichte geschrieben. Und es war nicht die erhebende Art von Geschichte wie bei der Entdeckung der Radioaktivitat oder dem ersten Mann auf dem Mond, sondern die finstere Art a la spanische Inquisition oder Absturz der Hindenburg. Finster fur Menschen und Unterirdische. Finster fur alle.		Eoin Colfer
0fceb58	Artemis had once seen Holly get into a fistfight with another elf who said her hair looked pretty, because she thought he was being sarcastic, as she was sporting a fresh crew cut on that particular day. Holly didn't go on many dates. Holly		Eoin Colfer
6fc0b41	Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.		Eoin Colfer
9d6a4fc	Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents.		Eoin Colfer
b7f05a8	his size drew attention from everyone who happened to glance downwards. But Mulch quickly discovered that Mud People could find a reason to distrust almost anyone. Height, weight, skin colour, religion. It was almost safer to be different in some way.	humanity being-special special-snowflake different	Eoin Colfer
6464509	Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.	love wisdom precious young-love	Eoin Colfer
4bf29f2	among guilt-ridden criminals, first diagnosed		Eoin Colfer
7787806	Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures.		Eoin Colfer

Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.

Eoin Colfer

24f7637

Punching - 2 shillings Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings Ear chewed off - same as previous Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings Shot in leg - 25 shillings Stab - same as previous Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up

Eoin Colfer

e637d5e

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

trick

Eoin Colfer

0a5ef60

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

mercy

Eoin Colfer

ece8bf2

Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."

Eoin Colfer

fda67e9

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

friendship

Eoin Colfer

1a85a3f

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

employment evidence

Eoin Colfer

018a925

She strode across the McGraney boundary without a backward glance, legs cutting twin swatches in the green-black grass. Dawn sunlight simmered on the tip of each blade, and Holly's passage set a surging ripple of light flashing across the meadow. Extraordinary, thought Artemis. What have I lost?

holly-short the-time-paradox

Eoin Colfer

3c4bc95

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist. 'Nope,' I replied.

half-moon half-moon-investigations mystery

Eoin Colfer

6526631

Artemis grabbed her shoulders, for once abandoning his shell of icy composure. "Holly, Holly, speak to me. Your finger is it okay?" Holly wiggled her fingers, then curled them into a fist. "I think so," she said, and whacked Artemis right between the eyes. The surprised boy landed in a snowdrift for the third time that day. Holly winked at an amazed butler. "Now we're even," she said. Commander Root didn't have many treasured memories. B..

Eoin Colfer

e7dce73

even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

height

Eoin Colfer

3d92919

Oh, how I wish I had already regenerated to become the tall one with the dicky bow, thought the Doctor, who occasionally had visions of his future selves. He is always so fit and agile. I suppose all that incessant running down corridors that he does . . . will do . . . may do, in one of my possible futures . . . is good for something.

Eoin Colfer

8c9a830

he would simply have to repress the emotions he was experiencing. Very unhealthy, psychologically speaking

Eoin Colfer

8bdafad

Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.

history

Eoin Colfer

82e1a8c

Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.

Eoin Colfer

598b88d

Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.

money screwed

Eoin Colfer

f3767fb

Luckily, he had the memory span of a particularly dim goldfish, so with any luck he'd have forgotten all about the comment by the time they'd completed their mission.

Eoin Colfer

726e9ca

Er setzte seine finsterste Miene auf. Bose, sagte er sich, bose, aber hoch intelligent. Und entschlossen, vergiss die Entschlossenheit nicht. [...] Er offnete die Tur. >>Guten Abend<<, grusste er, ganz der perfekte Gastgeber, wenn auch ein hinterhaltiger, boser, intelligenter und entschlossener. Root stand, die leeren Hande demonstrativ ausgestreckt, vor der Tur. Die universale Geste fur: Sieh her, ich trage keine grosse, morderische Waffe.

Eoin Colfer

b54c4b4

Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so ware.

Eoin Colfer

cea9f7e

The gremlin mob turned on Root, and when they saw the triple-barreled blaster on his hip, they kept right on turning. Root grabbed the microphone from behind the desk, and hauled it out to the extent of its cable. "Now hear this," he growled, his gravelly tones echoing around the terminal. "This is Commander Root of the LEP. We have a serious situation above ground, and I would appreciate cooperation from all you civilians. First, I would l..

Eoin Colfer

19ac273

Hat dich jemand reinkommen sehen?" "Ja, das FBI, die CIA, die NSA, die DEA und das MI6. Ach ja, und die GPB." "Die GPB?" "Gesamte Polizeibelegschaft." --

Eoin Colfer

638958d

You didn't foresee a troll-riding dwarf pushing your plane down the runway. You must be losing your touch, Artemis." He"

Eoin Colfer

cc4c94c

Hey," snapped Holly. "This is not the time to blame Artemis." "Thank you," said Artemis. "Finally." "There will be plenty of time to blame Artemis later, when this is resolved."

Eoin Colfer

d9f9c73

Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns & Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe.

Eoin Colfer

cb2c385

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.

enlightenment knowledge-is-power eoin-colfer

Eoin Colfer

563f8dc

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

eoin-colfer thief stealing conscience

Eoin Colfer

c79e82f

desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

risk

Eoin Colfer

15f7f95

Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.' 'Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting old here.

funny sarcasm

Eoin Colfer

c1ff429

I know what the Book says," snapped Root. "I just wish you weren't so gung ho about it. If I didn't know you better, I'd say there was some human blood in you." "There's no call for that," pouted Cudgeon. "I'm only doing my job." "Point taken," conceded the commander. "I'm sorry." You didn't often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult."

Eoin Colfer

634d7e4

Probably is absolutely the best I can do.

Eoin Colfer

0b0a402

Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten.

Eoin Colfer

78f182d

No one's ever really ready for a troll.

troll preparation

Eoin Colfer

664c629

Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition."

Eoin Colfer

0bc0ec3

Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time...

Eoin Colfer

1e61035

When Holly Short had opened the door of her makeshift basement cell, she had found her helmet bouncing on the spot in front of her with a 3-D image of Foaly's face projected onto it. "That is really creepy,"

Eoin Colfer

fc28753

Mortals, screw 'em.

Eoin Colfer

64ca982

In dieser Nacht wurde Geschichte geschrieben. Und es war nicht die erhebende Art von Geschichte wie bei der Entdeckung der Radioaktivitat oder dem ersten Mann auf dem Mond, sondern die finstere Art a la spanische Inquisition oder Absturz der Hindenburg. Finster fur Menschen und Unterirdische. Finster fur alle.

Eoin Colfer

0fceb58

Artemis had once seen Holly get into a fistfight with another elf who said her hair looked pretty, because she thought he was being sarcastic, as she was sporting a fresh crew cut on that particular day. Holly didn't go on many dates. Holly

Eoin Colfer

6fc0b41

Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

Eoin Colfer

9d6a4fc

Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents.

Eoin Colfer

b7f05a8

his size drew attention from everyone who happened to glance downwards. But Mulch quickly discovered that Mud People could find a reason to distrust almost anyone. Height, weight, skin colour, religion. It was almost safer to be different in some way.

humanity being-special special-snowflake different

Eoin Colfer

6464509

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

love wisdom precious young-love

Eoin Colfer

4bf29f2

among guilt-ridden criminals, first diagnosed

Eoin Colfer

7787806

Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures.

Eoin Colfer