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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 78a3ca4 | A change had come over No1. Initially, he had been snivelling--standard No1 behavior--but now the tears were drying on his cheeks, and his eyes were hard. , he thought. This was a big breakthrough for No1. Usually, when he found himself in a bad situation, No1 wished himself away. This time he was wishing someone else would disappear. Enough was finally enough, so No1 broke through a lifetime of conditioning and talked back to Abbot. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| aa796c3 | Holly took a moment to study a painting that dominated one wall. 'Oh, give me a break,' she said. The picture was in oils. Completely white. There was a brass plaque beneath. It read 'Snow Ghost'. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f045d9f | Love can be a noun or a verb," she said." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f776f06 | Pex and Chips were closer now, discussing the merits of various fictional characters. 'Captain Hook rocks,' said Pex. 'He would kick Barney's purple butt ten times out of ten.' Chips sighed. 'You're missing the whole point of Barney. It's a values thing. Butt-kicking is not the issue. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 1f61ef3 | Here we are, said Berthold, mopping his forehead with a Kleenex. A section of the paper remained trapped in the worry lines of his forehead, and fluttered there like a windsock in the air-conditioner blast. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 348b8a5 | LEP trainees often had difficulty developing the double focus needed to watch the terrain and their helmet screens. This often resulted in an action known as , which was how LEP officers referred to throwing up in one's helmet. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d15a758 | Big Knobs. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| b0c4955 | Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| b7f271a | Oh," said Mown, a handy non-committal syllable to have around when you haven't the first clue as to what you are feeling." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 03add1a | There is no such thing as an ending, or a beginning for that matter, everything is middle. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5530205 | Arguing with real people was marginally better than getting upset with sheets of paper. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cae2ea5 | Soon the entire nebula was little more than a shawl of cosmic gauze thrown over a network of stars. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 05f41fe | Es konnte nie schaden zu wissen, wo sich das ortsansassige Getier so rumtrieb. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 6b893de | Selbstvertrauen ist nichts anderes als Unwissenheit. Wenn man sich stark fuhlt, dann nur, weil es etwas gibt, das man nicht weiss. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c18056e | Immer zwei Schritte voraus, unser Master Artemis. Die Leute sagten, er sei ganz aus dem alten Holz geschnitzt. Doch sie irrten sich. Master Artemis war aus nagelneuem Holz, von einer Sorte, die noch keiner gesehen hatte. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d5451ff | the spittle bandage on his forehead casting a zombie glow on his face. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 41c78e9 | Other men look up and down, left and right," he said. "But men like us are different. We are visionaries." -- | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cb87ebb | pouting. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 27f6b24 | one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 7528744 | There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed, with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 2a318b7 | Guide Note: Remembering is generally a two-stage process involving dialogue between the conscious and subconscious parts of the brain. The subconscious opens proceedings by throwing up the relevant memory, an act which releases a spurt of self-congratulatory endorphins. Well done, matey, says the conscious. That memory is really useful right now, and I couldn't remember where I'd put it. You and me, pal, says the subconscious, delighted to .. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 37d8551 | I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c12028a | Artemis landed on the body heap and blinked the mud from his eyes. Someone, or something, stood naked before him, an ethereal figure glowing with divine light from head to foot. It reached out a shining hand and spoke in a deep movie promo voice: "Pull my finger." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 2a3ed55 | Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0a27db0 | I can tell you what love means, dictionary-wise, all the synonyms and so forth. And I can tell you all about endorphins and synapses and muscle memory. But ardour's resonance in the heart is a mystery to me. I'm a computer, Arthur." Arthur hid his disappointment with the traditional brisk rubbing of hands and stiffening of upper lip. "Of course. No problem." "I am made to live for ever but you are made to live." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 0de3185 | The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 32e57b7 | Inside the there was not a single passenger who had not been substantially altered by the journey. This was partly the fault of the space itself, as the sleeve of dark matter is largely an emotional construct and can serve as an accelerant for feelings that may otherwise have taken years to develop. For a being of the light, gazing even for a moment into the heart of dark space has an effect equivalent to a dozen near-death experiences. I.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d439a55 | Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 4aa301a | It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine--along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name their firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d8f2544 | No1 stared into his captor's eyes. 'I said, I want to talk to Qweffor.' Abbot heard him that time, because the voice wasn't No1's. It was a voice of pure magic, layered with undeniable power. Abbot blinked. 'I'll... eh... see if he's in.' It was too late for compliance: No1 wasn't about to rein in his power now. He sent a magical probe into Abbot's brain via the horns. The horns glowed bright blue and then began shedding large brittle flake.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 8ed42a3 | evolution had stripped them of this power. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 45b91a4 | She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs. And although she smiled, her heart was breaking. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f91a996 | Sir Robert de Vere, younger brother of John de Vere, the Lancastrian Earl of Oxford, is the most interesting of these men hand-picked by Jasper. | Terry Breverton | ||
| 54e4dc3 | DOWN A PEG (OR TWO) Humbled. An admiral flew his personal standard at the highest point of the mast, attached by rope to one of a series of pegs at its base. If a more senior admiral came aboard, the original standard would be taken down a peg or two to make room for the new flag. DRESSING | Terry Breverton | ||
| 2cdec9f | POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out--Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL" | Terry Breverton | ||
| 682d126 | Well | H. Jay Riker | ||
| 6cff579 | It represents a real point of consensus we haven't got now, and a lot of people were willing to give up things they wanted so they could get that agreement. It was a point in human history where all of Union agreed to a set of priorities, and now we'll either prove that agreement still binds everybody, or we'll prove somebody with enough guns can run everything at any given moment; and that means no peace, even for them. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 160f5c8 | That's why the forms matter. People have to see things done by the rules. We've got to make people feel safe again and make them believe that compromises are going to be binding. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| a3eb890 | We cannot say what we would have been, but we can still say what we will be. We are making up that sentence as we go, and we shall never be through with that statement. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 461e730 | It's the being there; the working of it; the feel of moving through what could surprise you at any moment. It's being a dust speck in that scale and pushing your way through all that Empty on your own terms, that no world can do and nothing spinning around one. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| c778483 | A lot of new money-- paid out in the least educated provinces, to elect fools who'll take orders, who can only see ways to entrench themselves and make sure contracts go to the right companies. Some of these fools are evident, and shrewd country-folk keep voting them in because the powers in their districts might buy one ten times worse and far more subtle. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 305b94f | It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years... but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman's terms. In public relations the mission was a failure; the public, seeking to understand on their own terms, looked for material benefit, treasure, riches, dramatic findings. | sensationalism | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 64c8cd1 | Unquestioning believers who thought they questioned everything, unhearing believers who heard nothing that in the least degree questioned the tenets of their sacred quest toward a salvation they predetermined to exist. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 4553b6c | That's the trouble getting involved in politics, nobody wears a name badge! | C.J. Cherryh |