606 Quotes by Eoin Colfer

Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.

You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.