Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
11 quotes
"Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander."
"Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts."
"Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history."
"No one's ever really ready for a troll."
"... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare."
"The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting."
"Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship."
"Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron."
"It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice."
"... desperate times required judicious risk-taking."
"What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?""No, Julius. It's the end of the circus.""I see. And these are the clowns?"Foaly's head poked through the doorway."Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?"