Quotes from Eoin Colfer

Ik heb het nog het best doorstaan, zou ze vermoedelijk ook niet bij de eerste de beste gelegenheid zeggen. Ik had alleen een geperforeerde long en een gebroken sleutelbeen. Je had moeten zien hoe de anderen eraan toe waren. - Holly

Ze kunnen het huis niet binnengaan voor Fowl dood is. Het is een soort extreme allergische reactie. Dat betekent, geloof het of niet, dat betekent...' 'Dat ze het hebben gered,' maakte Holly zijn zin af. 'Hij leeft. Artemis Fowl leeft.' 'D'Arvit,' kreunde Root, en hij kwakte nog een portie kots op de terracotta tegels.

The most exercise Ford had ever done was when he had attained an ultimate supremo rating in the offensive art of Wang Do during a sojourn in the Hunian Hills resort. Unfortunately Hunian Hills is a mind-surfing resort and so Ford had only done this exercise in his head, a fact that became painfully clear when he initiated a bar fight on Jaglan Beta with five journos from the gadget periodical Big Knobs.

Volg de bollen. - Turf

The goggles were cool. Girls loved them. Or so the driver thought. In his mind's eye he saw himself as a grim-faced daredevil. Sprites were like that. Give a fairy a pair of wings and he thinks he's God's gift to women. But Chix Verbil's ill-fated quest to impress the dames is, once again, another story.

What? Now?' 'Yes. Now.' Kamar paced the tiny living room. 'That is crazy. Completely insane. Fowl cannot be here for a couple of days at the earliest. There's no need for us to spend two days breathing in that poison. What is the reasoning?' Mikhael extended the phone. 'You tell him. I'm sure the Menidzher will appreciate being told he is a madman.' Kamar

It's now or never , thought Otto. Now, now! thought Witmeyer. And so Ram kissed Thundercat, and suddenly neither bed of roses nor mountain slope could compare with Her Majesty's sewer for romance. In fact, from this moment on, Otto Malarkey could never so much as sniff a chamber pot without a faraway look creeping into his eyes.

Het misverstand dat trollen stom zijn is wijdverbreid. Maar trollen zijn in feite hooguit betrekkelijk stom.

Mulch poked his head through from the passenger area. His face was slightly green. "I had a little accident," he said. No one inquired further.

Is it one of Artemis's? The Arctic Incident or The Eternity Code?

Foaly verspilde maar verder geen tijd aan de vraag waarom hij in vredesnaam een plasmakanon aan een weeshuis zou hebben geschonken.

Problem was that the blues used to creep over him slow: a gradual trough, then a slow climb up the other side. But now his mind knew what to expect and ramped things up straightaway, from zero to critical in a matter of minutes.

Sometimes I feel like people aren't listening to me. I spend ninety minutes up here talking about the dangers of time travel, advising you to stay the hell away from time travel, and the first question I get is: 'Do you think time travel will be available commercially?' Then again, I spend every waking hour bent over quantum equations, so I guess I don't listen to me, either. - Professor Charles Smart

Holly klopte op haar zakken. 'Gut, wat jammer. Laat ik mijn superlaser nou in een andere zak hebben laten zitten.

Science was taking the magic out of everything.

It tickled Vern some to imagine the worldwide shit storm that would follow an event like that. The humans would straight-up crap themselves. Washington would be terrified of an impending dragon takeover. No stone would be left unturned, that was for sure.

Geen eenden. Alsjeblieft geen eenden. Ik zou de Nobelprijs nog winnen. - Artemis

Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university?

Mulch on the other hand couldn't have found his childhood with an encyclopedia.

Ja, ik zou maar snel wegvliegen, Tweety! - Holly

Jon Spiro might have stuff that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had stuff that humans had never seen.

One did not become one of the world's deadliest men by dropping one's guard.

Would you? That would be fab.' Aseed made the triangle sign. 'What's that?' 'It's a cheese triangle. Appease the Cheese. It's kind of a slogan I made up.

My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.