“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 Everything looked out of date.”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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“I chose the specialty of surgery because of Matron, that steady presence during my boyhood and adolescence. 'What is the hardest thing you can possibly do?' she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life.
I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. 'Why must I do what is hardest?'
'Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?
'But, Matron, I can't dream of playing Bach...I couldn't read music.
'No, Marion,' she said her gaze soft...'No, not Bach's 'Gloria'. Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.”
― Abraham Verghese, quote from Cutting for Stone
“Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice."
I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Speaker for the Dead
“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”
― Edith Hamilton, quote from Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
“I am going to MURDER YOU—”
“No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don’t like to kill people, remember? You’re against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows—”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Ignite Me
“Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it.
You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost.
Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.
To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Before I Fall
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