“No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?"
Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Reluctant Assassin
“Punching - 2 shillings
Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings
Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings
Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings
Ear chewed off - same as previous
Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings
Shot in leg - 25 shillings
Stab - same as previous
Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Reluctant Assassin
“The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Reluctant Assassin
“Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Reluctant Assassin
Eoin Colfer
Born place: in Wexford, Ireland
Born date May 14, 1965
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“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
― Aimee Friedman, quote from Sea Change
“C'è stato un tempo in cui osavo sognare che Miriam e io, superati i
novanta, saremmo spirati insieme, come Filemone e Bauci. E allora un
munifico Zeus, con un lieve tocco del caduceo, ci avrebbe trasformato in
due alberi vicini, coi rami che si sfiorano d'inverno, le foglie che si
intrecciano a primavera.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Barney's Version
“So are you and Liz living together?”
“Yes, but don't tell her I told you that.”
“So you're living together but she doesn't know it?”
“Pretty much.” I shrug.”
― Aurora Rose Reynolds, quote from Until Trevor
“Lan shook his head sightly "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from New Spring
“He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from The Actor and the Housewife
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