606 Quotes by Eoin Colfer

Sometimes plans don’t translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Root stood on the doorstep, palms up, the universal gesture for Look, I’m not carrying a big murderous weapon.

Mortals, screw ’em.

Wasn’t there a plasma cannon back here somewhere?” “No. You donated that to the orphanage.” Foaly did not waste time wondering why he would have donated a plasma cannon to an orphanage but instead kept digging through the junk in the van.

Holly, I wish you wouldn’t appear like that. I’m a bodyguard. I get jumpy.

Artemis was wearing a pair of red Armani boxer shorts, which were pretty much the same color as his face.

Artemis landed on the body heap and blinked the mud from his eyes. Someone, or something, stood naked before him, an ethereal figure glowing with divine light from head to foot. It reached out a shining hand and spoke in a deep movie promo voice: “Pull my finger.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn’t catch me doing that.

According to the Book, they had once been equipped with wings of their own, but evolution had stripped them of this power. All but the sprites. One school of thought believed that the People were descended from airborne dinosaurs. Possibly pterodactyls. Much of the upper-body skeletal structure was the same. This theory would certainly explain the tiny nub of bone on each shoulder blade.