Quotes from Eoin Colfer

code red thing.' Holly

Artemis believed that with today's technology the Book could be translated. And with this translation you could begin to exploit a whole new group of creatures.

harður maður.

Artemis zorgde er met wat kussens voor dat Holly gemakkelijk lag. 'Weet toch, lieve vriendin, dat ik zonder jou niet degene zou zijn die ik nu ben.' Hij boog zich dicht naar haar toe en fluisterde: 'Ik was er slecht aan toe, en jij hebt me gered. Dank je wel.

Oh, said Mown, a handy non-committal syllable to have around when you haven't the first clue as to what you are feeling.

But who could possibly have a motive to kill us?

There is no such thing as an ending, or a beginning for that matter, everything is middle.

Arguing with real people was marginally better than getting upset with sheets of paper.

Probeer je te suggereren dat ik wel eens buiten mijn boekje ga?' vroeg Holly, die van het idee alleen blijkbaar al gruwelde. Foaly gniffelde. 'Ik probeer te suggereren dat je misschien niet zelf een exemplaar van het boekje hebt en dat je het, mocht je er wel een hebben, in elk geval nog nooit hebt opengedaan.

Butler prepared them a meal. Nothing fancy. Vegetarian spring rolls, followed by mushroom risotto with crème caramel to finish.

Chix Verbil's chip.

Ja, dat begrijpen we,' zei Artemis. 'Hoe lang duurt het voor je de betovering geformuleerd hebt?' Nr. 1 beet even op zijn lip. 'Ongeveer net zo lang als jullie tweeën nodig hebben om jullie kleren uit te trekken.' 'Gadver,' zei Artemis, die zich bijna verslikte van verbazing. 'D'Arvit,' vloekte Holly.

Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness monster, me. It's all real. Maybe.

Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers. Think of something crazy, or if that's too taxing just throw random adjectives and nouns together.

Artemis en Holly stonden in hun ondergoed naast elkaar en haakten voorzichtig hun vingers ineen... 'Dan verklaar ik jullie hierbij...

Sirens. We need to get out of this area, Artemis, before I'm forced to cause an international incident.

Soon the entire nebula was little more than a shawl of cosmic gauze thrown over a network of stars.

Holly... Je hebt me wederom gered.' … 'Natuurlijk heb ik je gered,' zei ze. 'Ik kan toch niet zonder je?

and immediately

Did you bring any food? I haven't eaten for, wow, it must be minutes.

Opal Koboi. Ik wist wel dat er nog een psychotisch element aan dit reisje ontbrak. - Holly

Saving a species would give me a certain satisfaction, and no child has ever won the prize before, not even the great Artemis Fowl.

Squib could allow that he missed having a daddy, even a fake one, so long as he kept that thought inside his own head. Even if that daddy did drink beer like it was keeping him alive instead of the opposite. Even if he did raid Momma's coffee can for change and spend it on lottery scratch tickets.

Strange that mud people were more concerned about the past than the present.