“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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“...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, quote from Purple Hibiscus
“But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?”
― Ford Madox Ford, quote from The Good Soldier
“One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Lord of the Silver Bow
“They didn't trip and kill each other.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Fury
“… Кучето ми бе успяло да се върне, бяха му простреляли дробовете, но донесе покупките, успях и да го погаля, успях да му дам и бучка захар за похвала и награда, но то не я взе, сложи глава в скута ми и така бавно гаснеше, зад мен скланяше над нас глава кончето, поемаше с ноздри миризмата на кучето, дойде и козата, и котката, която спеше заедно с кучето, но мен така и не остави да я погаля, въпреки че, така отдалече, тя май ме обичаше най-много, когато й говорех, лягаше по гръб, гънеше се и се извиваше, и отправяше към мен лапички и погледи, все едно че я милвах под гушката или по кожухчето й, но протегнех ли към нея ръка, всеки път силата на плахостта я изстрелваше далеч от досега на пръстите ми… дойде котката и се сгуши, както бе свикнала, в козината на овчарката, аз протегнах към нея длан, но тя се беше загледала в гаснещите очи на кучето, и аз я погалих, тя ме изгледа, давайки ми да разбера, че за нея това е отвратително и че го е преодоляла само заради смъртта на приятеля си, затова предпочете да затвори очи и да пъхне глава в козината на кучето, за да не гледа това, от което изпитваше ужас и за което инак копнееше.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
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