Quotes from Eoin Colfer

Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour. Upon impact, each bar pulverized the contact area plus the surrounding fifteen centimeters, effectively blowing the door off its damn hinges. As the captain would say.

The good news is that Kong can't be too far ahead of us, so it is unlikely he had time to set up any traps either.

Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said it better: With great power comes great responsibility.

The only other Earthling left alive was Tricia McMillan, or Trillian to use her cool, spacey name, a fiercely ambitious astrophysicist cum fledgling reporter who had always believed that there was more to life than life on Earth.

Two hundred goblins versus our virtually unarmed three heroes. It was going to be close.

Other men look up and down, left and right," he said. "But men like us are different. We are visionaries.

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Mulch's beard hairs curled in apprehension. And as his grandmother always said, Trust the hair, Mulch, trust the hair.

Constance Lane tried to frown, but there wasn't enough slack skin across her brow.

At his shoulder, Arno Blunt continued staring at Butler. The Fowl bodyguard blinked freely: in the event of confrontation, dry eyeballs would only lessen his advantage. Staring matches were for amateurs.

Butler cleaned his gun as he spoke. He often did this in times of stress. It was a comfort thing.

Don't say gone, say dead —that's what they are.

I'll make up for my age with a really big gun.

something no good security man would permit.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed," he said.

Ga Artemis redden. Dat is het allerlaatste bevel dat je van me krijgt, kapitein. En waag het niet dat in de wind te slaan. - Root

So, Mo," said Loafers, chuckling as if that simple rhyme was the funniest joke he had ever made. (Sadly, it was.)

Ik herinner me hem wel, Holly. Ik herinner het me allemaal. Vooral jou. Het is een hele troost dat jij hier bij me bent.' … 'Dat is heel lief van je, Artemis,' zei ze na even te hebben nagedacht. 'Maar je hoeft voor mij niet te doen alsof.

Convict. What are you doing?' 'Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

We hebben het overleefd. Betekent dat dat we nu vrienden zijn? Door een traumatische gebeurtenis met elkaar verbonden?' … 'Ik vind dat ik niet betaald moet krijgen om een vriend te helpen. Hou dat elfengoud maar.

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.

Zevenenhalf uur om de wereld te redden. Is er niet een of andere wet die zegt dat we minstens vierentwintig uur de tijd krijgen? - Holly

steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.

Maak je geen zorgen, Modderjongen,' zei Holly. 'Ik hou je goed in de gaten, om te zorgen dat je op het rechte pad blijft.