“In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“Red was smiling back at me. “Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month.”
I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“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.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.
'Nope,' I replied.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Half-Moon Investigations
“People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.”
― John Irving, quote from A Widow for One Year
“Tonight the world is yours, as am I.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“—Madre, hija, niño de tres años —insistí, empezando otra vez a enfadarme—. A nadie les importan una mierda.
—¿Y qué? Nadie se preocupaba por ellos cuando estaban vivos. ¿Por qué esperas que se preocupen ahora que han muerto?”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider
“He pointed a shaking finger at her. 'You,' he growled.
She jerked glances over both of her shoulders looking for the unfortunate You he was addressing. Her. Holy shite, this madman had settled on her.”
― Kresley Cole, quote from A Hunger Like No Other
“When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carrie
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