606 Quotes by Eoin Colfer

All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

Holly moved. A second too late. The table clipped her backpack, knocking the gas tank clean off. It spun through the air, trailing flammable liquid.Italian restaurants—wouldn't you know it—full of candles. The tank twirled right through an elaborate candelabrum and burst into flames like some deadly firework.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.''Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting oldhere.

Excuse me, Tex," the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits.

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.'Nope,' I replied.

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--''Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.'Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain?

Artemis stepped into his mother's embrace. It was warm and strong. She was wearing perfume. He felt like the boy he was.

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.