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Quotes About Struggle

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~ Enid Blyton
about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)
~ Eoin Colfer
Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over
~ Eoin Colfer
Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.
~ Eoin Colfer
That will be her undoing, gasped Artemis, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. Artemis Fowl will never be secondary . I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second? said Holly.
~ Eoin Colfer
Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending
~ Eoin Colfer
You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way You have way too much bad karma.
~ Eoin Colfer
Sometimes being a genius was a burden.
~ Eoin Colfer
Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.
~ Eoin Colfer
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
There are a lot of hopes riding on you. But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.
~ Eoin Colfer
Sie haben diesen Mistkerl genau da erwischt, wo es wehtut: bei seinem Ehrgeiz.
~ Eoin Colfer
That's the problem with being a semi-reformed criminal: you are never free from guilt. Exposure is always just a phone call away.
~ Eoin Colfer
Butler struggled from a tiny fairy chair. "Right, enough talk. I think it's time Mister Vassikin was introduced to my friend, Mister Fist.
~ Eoin Colfer
Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
~ Eoin Colfer
Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.
~ Eoin Colfer
Scars branded the prisoner's face like lightning bolts
~ Eoin Colfer
Two hundred goblins versus our virtually unarmed three heroes. It was going to be close.
~ Eoin Colfer
Guide Note: For the past three decades of real time, the human Arthur Dent had made his life infinitely more miserable than it needed to be by displaying a spectacular ability to say the right thing but at the wrong time.
~ Eoin Colfer
He was gonna die here alone. He would never be great. Artemis felt his brain going spiraling off into a black tunnel. Concentrate, he told himself. Focus.
~ Eoin Colfer
He was gonna die here alone. He would never be great. Artemis felt his brain going, spiraling off in a black tunnel. 'Concentrate,' he told himself. 'Focus.
~ Eoin Colfer
The barman sniggered. 'Win? Nobody wins in here, junior.
~ Eoin Colfer
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
the ultimate despair.
~ Eoin Colfer