“That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable.
- Foaly”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get twenty-four?
Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“He's a gem, sir. I wish I had one just like him." He rattled the ring of keys on Artemis's belt. "And what are these?" Artemis scratched his head. "Uh, keys?”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“I do remember, Holly. I remember it all. Especially you. It's a real comfort to have you here.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“It's a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn't have to talk to grownups.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Mulch was not impressed. “I’m not impressed,”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“Some people just needed to be stolen from.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“The Brill brothers fled to the cockpit, trying to simultaneously bow, look at their feet, not think anything dangerous, and above all, not pass wind.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Opal Deception
“when one day ends, the next begins, for in this infinite universe there is no final conclusion to anything, definitely not to hope.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Twilight Eyes
“We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of grater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us. The less we understand of what our [forebears] sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzche called the spirit of gravity. (p.236)”
― C.G. Jung, quote from Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Radiance
“He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed in
the power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly, the power of the will. Frankly, he saw no
reason why love should be an involuntary thing.
If he didn’t want to fall in love, then by damn, he wasn’t going to. It was as simple as that. Ithad to be as
simple as that.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from The Viscount Who Loved Me
“Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Big Over Easy
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