“In comic books, people with gifts became superheroes; in real life they became outcasts.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they’ll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Cosmo was halfway through a particularly nasty dream involving two Parasites, Ziplock, and a hair dryer,”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Cosmo sank into a near trancelike state. The events of the past few days bounced around his head like blobs of oil in a lava lamp. Who was he now? Cosmo Hill fugitive no-sponsor, or Cosmo Hill Supernaturalist? Who was Cosmo Hill anyhow? A product of Clarissa Frayne, with no personality to speak of. Fourteen years old and he had never kissed a girl.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Myishi will kick Phonetix’s butt next quarter.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
Eoin Colfer
Born place: in Wexford, Ireland
Born date May 14, 1965
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“to cooperate with strangers, we need some means of distinguishing the strangers with whom we can cooperate from those who might exploit us. In”
― Joshua D. Greene, quote from Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“You need to recognize when you’re making a choice that requires willpower; otherwise, the brain always defaults to what is easiest.”
― Kelly McGonigal, quote from The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie in a blacked-out room waiting for the voices to get infected by the pains in my head and clear off.
Knowing I was different with my OCD, anorexia and the voices that no one else seemed to hear made me feel isolated, disconnected. I took everything too seriously. I analysed things to death. I turned every word, and the intonation of every word over in my mind trying to decide exactly what it meant, whether there was a subtext or an implied criticism. I tried to recall the expressions on people’s faces, how those expressions changed, what they meant, whether what they said and the look on their faces matched and were therefore genuine or whether it was a sham, the kind word touched by irony or sarcasm, the smile that means pity.
When people looked at me closely could they see the little girl in my head, being abused in those pornographic clips projected behind my eyes?
That is what I would often be thinking and such thoughts ate away at the façade of self-confidence I was constantly raising and repairing.
(describing dissociative identity disorder/mpd symptoms)”
― quote from Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly than I should have ever thought possible.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz
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