606 Quotes by Eoin Colfer

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 Everything looked out of date.

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

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

The name’s Bond. James Omar Bond.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.