606 Quotes by Eoin Colfer

Orion sniffed. “Good. Then, Worthy Centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your back. Then I can make a few pennies with my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby.” This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away. “This isn’t Middle Earth, you know. We’re not in a novel. I am not noble, neither do I have a repertoire of circus tricks.” Orion seemed disappointed. “Can you juggle at least?

The great Stephen King once wrote don’t sweat the small stuff, which I mulled over for long enough to realise that I don’t entirely agree with it. I get what he means: we all have enough major sorrow in our lives without freaking out over the day-today hangnails and such, but sometimes sweating the small stuff helps you make it through the big stuff.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to ‘Doctor Who’ through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

I am exactly the right age for this project,” said Minerva. “I’m young enough to believe in magic and old enough to understand how it works.

It’s a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn’t have to talk to grownups.

Angeline, distraught over her son’s obsession and afraid of the effects of the past year on Artemis’s mind, signed her thirteen-year-old up for treatment with the school counselor. You have to feel sorry for him. The counselor, that is.

And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there’s something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.

Everyone nodded. Technically it was correct, as they did know it now.

No one’s ever really ready for a troll.