606 Quotes by Eoin Colfer

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    Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.

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    I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I’m often forced to read in the bathroom.

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    When you decide to die, Artemis thought sluggishly, it doesn’t matter how many people want to kill you.

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    And not just a troll, Bellico realized. A troll and its rider. Mulch Diggums was clamped to the back of the troll’s head with a hank of hair in each hand.

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    Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers’ high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn’t stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.

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    The commander had decided to take offense at the fact that the first female officer in Recon’s history had been assigned to his squad. Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn’t think it was any place for a girlie. Well, he was just going to have to get used to the idea, because Holly Short had no intention of quitting for him or anybody else.

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    That’s the problem with being a semi-reformed criminal: you are never free from guilt. Exposure is always just a phone call away.

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    Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they’d phone their lawyer on the way down.

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