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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3531537 | Artemis put his decaf cappuccino down gently, so as not to rattle the saucer. "We're at the Nice Library trying to dig up anything on this Minerva person. Perhaps we can find out if she has a villa near here." "Glad to hear it," said Holly. "I had visions of you two drinking tea at the beach while I sweat it out here." Twenty yards from where Artemis was sitting, waves swirled along the beach like emerald paint poured from a bucket. "Tea? A.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 9bdc2f6 | Scopes were sending high-res shots | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 11cbdcb | Holly wanted to be sure she understood what was being said. "So you're saying that Shelly is going to light a fart?" "No, Shelly is going to light the fart. He has stored enough methane to power Haven for a year. There hasn't been a fart like this since the last dwarf tribal gathering." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 2c76f44 | It was a woefully inadequate response, and Artemis was instantly appalled with himself. Pathetic really: I don't like lollipops. No self-respecting criminal mastermind would be caught dead even using the word lollipops. He really would have to put together a database of witty responses for occasions such as this. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 14b89e5 | Just two short guys home for the holidays.' Loafers bristled. 'What do you mean two short guys?' Carla snapped the compact shut. 'Who are you talking to, McGuire? Because you couldn't be talking to me. Not in that tone.' Loafers paled, his life flashing before him. 'I'm sorry, Miss Frazetti. It's just the short thing. I've been listening to it my whole life.' 'What do you want people to call you? Lofty? You're short, Loafers. Get over it. T.. | suck-it-up | Eoin Colfer | |
| 55fec37 | The officer holstered his weapon, drawing out a set of cuffs. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 6e4d544 | Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c67ec74 | screens. "You'll be off any second. Remember, try not to touch anything you don't have to. Don't talk to anyone. Don't contact me in the past. I have no desire not to exist." Artemis nodded. "I know. Make as little impact as possible, in case the time paradox theory has some merit." Holly was impatient to get going. "Enough science. Just blast us into the past. We'll bring the monkey back." "Lemur," said Artemis and Foaly together. No1 clos.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 024b391 | But calling up magic when there were arrows flying and chunks of the countryside disappearing was about as easy as going to the toilet on command with a dozen people watching. Who all hated you. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 1e4e49d | She supposed this irritating bickering was how the males of every species showed affection. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| ecb8a3d | She cast her eyes toward the heavens. "Help," she cried. And it began to rain diamonds." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cc2a8b3 | Now, my little leech, do your nasty work for Aunt Opal, and I will reward you by squeezing your innards into a bucket." He sighed. "Why are all my best lines wasted on annelids?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 366569a | Holly. In the name of all the gods, stop shooting energy into all-energy beings. Just how stupid are you? The bots quivered and meshed, growing larger and more aggressive. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 027cf17 | The female guard smiled broadly then collapsed. On the ground she began singing a nursery rhyme about doggies and their bones. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d601a34 | The amorphobots had entered the ambulance through the air lock and morphed into one in the ambulance's only cell. Actually, the bot holding Mulch Diggums was excluded from the morph, as the other bots could not identify the chemical spectrum of the gas bubbles inside the dwarf's body, and did not frankly like the look of Mulch anyway, and so, though it tried to meld with the others, the bot was repulsed and wobbled lonely in the corner. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 92574f3 | Sie haben diesen Mistkerl genau da erwischt, wo es wehtut: bei seinem Ehrgeiz. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a3da1ec | Artemis and Holly stood there in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions, and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes, and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward. No1 knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't resist a parting crack. "I now pronounce you . . ." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 87c2bff | The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud People seemed more concerned about the past than the present. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e8dd182 | It was funny how quickly a person's priorities could change. This morning he had been worried about which loafers to wear with his suit, and now all he could think about was the fact that his dearest friend's life hung in the balance, And the balance was rapidly shifting. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| bc2bb14 | Artemis was wearing a pair of red Armani boxer shorts, which were pretty much the same color as his face. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 51aa9a4 | I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as perfect love. That's too long. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d528692 | Confidence is ignorance," advised the centaur. "If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 74aa73e | And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 07ebacb | Wenn ich gewinne, wird man sagen, ich sei ein Genie, wenn ich verliere, wird es heissen, ich sei ubergeschnappt. So wird Geschichte geschrieben. | geschichte | Eoin Colfer | |
| 09dc99d | I know what you're thinking," said Root. "Why am I picking on you every day? Why don't I ever bawl out those other layabouts?" Holly said nothing, but agreement was written all over the face. "I'll tell you why, shall I? Holly risked a nod. "It's because you're a girl." Holly felt her fingers curl into fists. She knew it!" | funny | Eoin Colfer | |
| add5aa8 | The universe has certain rules. Among them are: And: And most applicable in this case: The first rule could be, at a stretch, applied to Tony Stark and the Iron Man suit, considering recent events. One notable exception to the second rule was currently swinging around New York City on a spider web, which did not bear thinking about. | humor iron-man rules spiderman | Eoin Colfer | |
| cb8078d | Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 8ced2c3 | Change, son of mine, should be applied like salt to a dish--best taste it, understand it, and then decide." "Is" | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| d07bcc0 | He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own presence in the world, and sought gods who might be more powerful than himself. It would be very comfortable if there were someone more powerful than himself, on this Road, on this particular morning, someone to guide him, even someone to blame.... | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| dfbe4de | He had read about evil in Efanor's little book, and how it permeated the doings of Men, but he had never foud such doings evil, rather good and bad...but none without self-interest, none he could not understand even in terms of his own will to have his way. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| b085593 | He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live. | technology wilderness | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 11e8c48 | I couldn't yet see the limits of my life, but he could see the limits of his. His life was thin, and he had a hunger for recognition. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| c366d4d | Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. | trade warehouse | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 9b148ea | If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 1062703 | There was a wicked man once who called a hatani. 'Kill my neighbor,' he said. 'That's not hatani business,' the hatani said and went away. The wicked man found another hatani. 'My life is wretched,' the wicked man said. 'I hate my neighbor. I want to see him die,' 'That is a hatani matter,' the hatani said. 'Do you give it into my hands?' 'Yes,' the wicked man said. And the hatani struck him dead. Do you understand the solution?" Thorn" | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 2495714 | People who do something can always make a mistake. So can people who do nothing. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| abc9fcf | It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to be swayed by it, but it was no protection at all when power reached out with tangible results and brought down the lightning. | power | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 13013c0 | The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake. | science-fiction | C.J. Cherryh | |
| fce8d75 | It was ordained that you would have the title to the thing and I would have the thing itself. | Denis Diderot | ||
| 5b9d2f3 | So back to the three great prizes I was (and am) so proud of--it's sobering to note the prize money: ten pounds for the March, the same for the Strathspey & Reel and five pounds for the Jig. Set against the cost of perhaps $3000 for the trip, it's clear I was not doing this for the money. Knowing the tone of my comments to Gen. Richardson, it's a delicious irony to hear him speak in the newspaper report of the "sporting way" in which I took.. | Bill Livingstone | ||
| d19fcc1 | The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live. | memorization poems poetry | Bill Richardson | |
| c4d2ba5 | Un despote ne doit pas obtenir du credit"." | Denis Diderot | ||
| f1f3539 | La superstition est plus injurieuse a Dieu que l'atheisme. | Denis Diderot | ||
| 6650f3b | 'drktu 'n qwl lHqyq@ wHdh l ykfy , bl ynbGy 'yDan 'n ykwn Tryf | Denis Diderot |