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world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas.
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Eoin Colfer |
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00f94ec
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Cosmo was halfway through a particularly nasty dream involving two Parasites, Ziplock, and a hair dryer,
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Eoin Colfer |
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Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.
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Eoin Colfer |
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ffb4d70
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Cosmo sank into a near trancelike state. The events of the past few days bounced around his head like blobs of oil in a lava lamp. Who was he now? Cosmo Hill fugitive no-sponsor, or Cosmo Hill Supernaturalist? Who was Cosmo Hill anyhow? A product of Clarissa Frayne, with no personality to speak of. Fourteen years old and he had never kissed a girl.
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Eoin Colfer |
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3483314
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Wir machen dem Zirkus ein Ende." "Verstehe. Und das da sind die Clowns?" Foaly steckte seinen Kopf durch die Tur. "Entschuldigen Sie, wenn ich Ihre kunstvolle Zirkusmetapher unterbreche, aber was zum Teufel ist das?"
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Eoin Colfer |
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27adecc
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Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they'll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank.
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Eoin Colfer |
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5f1e1bb
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I am surprised. 'A disk? A bloody disk. What do I look like to you? Jason goddamn Bourne?
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jason-bourne
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Eoin Colfer |
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72b3b49
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This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness.
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Eoin Colfer |
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Deacon laughs. 'People like you and me, Dan, trouble sniffs us out. Maybe you can hide out for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually someone needs to be saved or someone needs to be killed.
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Eoin Colfer |
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I must capture the flag,' he breathed. 'That's what a pirate captain is supposed to do. Go to the roof, so I can capture the flag and gloat.' 'Capture the flag and goat?' 'Gloat.' Isabella stood hands on hips. 'It's pronounced goooaaat, idiot.
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Eoin Colfer |
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Man is the biggest threat to Earth. We gut the planet of its fossil fuels then turn those same fuels against the planet through global warming... The world's glaciers are losing as much as six feet of ice cover per annum, that's half a million square miles in the Arctic Ocean alone in the past thirty years.
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Eoin Colfer |
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561677a
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He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
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men
love
psycho
dagger
mom
sweet
dangerous
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Eoin Colfer |
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d5ac2a4
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But then what were physical feelings if not more electrical messages from the brain? Why believe in them either? Was there anything trustworthy in the Universe that one could hug and hold on to in the midst of a butterfly storm, other than a Hawaliusian wind staunch?
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Eoin Colfer |
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Ich hore mir das nicht langer an. Jede Sekunde, die ich mit dir spreche, ist eine verlorene Sekunde." Da blickte Root ihm direkt in die Augen. "Das macht dann, alles in allem, gut sechshundert verlorene Jahre, was, mein "
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Eoin Colfer |
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0a79041
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Mit genau einem Meter Korpergrosse lag Holly nur einen Zentimeter unter dem Elfendurchschnitt, aber ein Zentimeter kann verdammt viel ausmachen, wenn er einem fehlt.
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Eoin Colfer |
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20ae470
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Butler struggled from a tiny fairy chair. "Right, enough talk. I think it's time Mister Vassikin was introduced to my friend, Mister Fist." --
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Eoin Colfer |
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Careful with that," said the Doctor. "No need to get carried away." Aldridge spun the scalpel like a baton. "Yessir. Careful is my middle name. Actually Clumsy is my middle name, but that doesn't encourage clients and it makes me sound like one of those dwarfs that are going to be so popular when moving pictures a get going."
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Eoin Colfer |
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eb83c85
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The cow spat. "What are you going to do? Not eat me?" "That's right. I won't eat you and I won't eat your entire family. Wherever they hide, I'll find them and not eat a single bite."
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Eoin Colfer |
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When it had all become too much for the pixie, her brain had simply shut down, all except the most vital functions. She still breathed, and occasionally the monitors registered a dream spike in her brainwaves. But other than that, for all intents and purposes, Opal Koboi was no more.
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Eoin Colfer |
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The commander had decided to take offense at the fact that the first female officer in Recon's history had been assigned to his squad. Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn't think it was any place for a girlie. Well, he was just going to have to get used to the idea, because Holly Short had no intention of quitting for him or anybody else.
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Eoin Colfer |
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ec516b0
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As the clinic's janitors, it had been a simple matter for Merv and Scant to plant the acid balloons the previous evening. Of
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Eoin Colfer |
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8505f20
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She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--'
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half-moon
half-moon-investigations
mystery
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Eoin Colfer |
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b7926e5
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Meervoudige persoonlijkheid, waandenkbeelden, dwangneurose. Ik heb ze allemaal, maar ik ben vooral gek op jou. - Orion/Artemis
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Eoin Colfer |
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606c6ef
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The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.
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humour
funny
diversion
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Eoin Colfer |
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1a0ffda
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Don't think about it, Holly told herself. Don't think about the white-hot magma flow that's going to engulf this tiny craft. Don't think about hurtling toward the surface with a MACH 2 force trying to turn you inside out. And certainly don't think about the blood-crazed troll ready to disembowel you with his tusks. Nope. Don't think about any of that stuff... Too late.
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Eoin Colfer |
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Here we go again, boys. Off on another adventure. This time busting Riley's brother out of prison. There will be danger; there will be spills and thrills. There will be knives and there will be guns and there will be people saying stupid things at the worst possible time." "Probably me!" said Bob cheerfully. "So we need a motto, something to keep us going when the odds are against us." "Like ?" asked Riley. "No, not like that. And thanks f..
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Eoin Colfer |
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c577e98
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Invent things that people actually want. Keep your thoughts to yourself until you are ready to patent your invention,
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Eoin Colfer |
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935fadd
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One: listen to your commander--he is always right. Two: ignore all hunches, unless suggested by your commander, who is always right. Three: if in doubt, call your commander. The one who is always right.
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Eoin Colfer |
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Opal giggled. For someone, who never smiled, he had a delicious sense of humor.
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Eoin Colfer |
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According to the Book, they had once been equipped with wings of their own, but evolution had stripped them of this power. All but the sprites. One school of thought believed that the People were descended from airborne dinosaurs. Possibly pterodactyls. Much of the upper-body skeletal structure was the same. This theory would certainly explain the tiny nub of bone on each shoulder blade.
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Eoin Colfer |
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So even though his involvement with the goblin uprising during his fourteenth year was to be traumatic, terrifying, and dangerous; it was probably the best thing that could have happened. At least he spent some time outdoors and got to meet some new people. It's a pity most of them were trying to kill him.
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sarcasm
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Eoin Colfer |
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But as time went by, fewer camera crews turned up at the gates each morning. After all, how many hours of drooling can an audience be expected to sit through? Gradually the LEP crews were downsized from a dozen to six and finally to a single officer per shift. Where could Opal Koboi go? the
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Eoin Colfer |
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0a5f656
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he dragged her like a string of cans behind the wedding car
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funny
visual-writing
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Eoin Colfer |
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d868232
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Du hast ja keine Ahnung, was du getan hast. Die beiden Welten auf diese Weise zusammenzubringen, konnte uns alle ins Ungluck sturzen." "Uns alle interessiert mich nicht, mir geht es nur um mich. Und glauben Sie mir, Captain, mir wird nicht das Geringste passieren."
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Eoin Colfer |
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Artemis was propped on his elbows. "You hit me," he said in disbelief." --
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Eoin Colfer |
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A sprite came into my office the other day, and he had a bunch of microscopic hoop-worm larvae wriggling around his armpit. What is wrong with people?
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Eoin Colfer |
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THE BOOKE OF THE PEOPLE. BEING INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR MAGICKS AND LIFE RULES.
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Eoin Colfer |
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suplexed a particularly impudent pizza boy. The suplex, Artemis gathered, was a wrestling move. An unusual obsession for a teenage girl. But then again she was, after all, a Butler.
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Eoin Colfer |
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The lucky ones hit partitions and went straight through. The unlucky ones collided with solid cinderblock walls. Things broke. Not the cinderblocks
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Eoin Colfer |
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Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
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Eoin Colfer |
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e32fcbd
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Pizza, pizza, Fill up your face, The thicker the pastry, The better the base!
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eoin-colfer
pizzasong
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Eoin Colfer |
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5b0a136
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And suddenly I was afraid. My father, the man whose shoes I had been trying to fill for two years, was awake. Would he still live up to my expectations? Would I live up to his?
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relationship
family
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Eoin Colfer |
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caafafc
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Artemis hooked the speaker over one ear, adjusting the mike stem so it wound across his mouth. 'Foaly? Are you listening?' 'Are you kidding?' came the reply. 'This is better than human soap operas.
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funny
soap-operas
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Eoin Colfer |
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5628271
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Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.
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funny
lunatics
nice
kind
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Eoin Colfer |