Top 280 Eoin Colfer Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “There’s always time for babbling.”

— Eoin Colfer

252. “He was the point dog, sent in to check for hostiles. His orders were simple. Bite everything. If it screamed, it was hostile.”

— Eoin Colfer

253. “Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.”

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254. “But then what were physical feelings if not more electrical messages from the brain? Why believe in them either? Was there anything trustworthy in the Universe that one could hug and hold on to in the midst of a butterfly storm, other than a Hawaliusian wind staunch?”

— Eoin Colfer

255. “But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.”

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256. “Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife’s stares were daggers, he’d be dead already.”

— Eoin Colfer

257. “The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.”

— Eoin Colfer

258. “But as time went by, fewer camera crews turned up at the gates each morning. After all, how many hours of drooling can an audience be expected to sit through? Gradually the LEP crews were downsized from a dozen to six and finally to a single officer per shift. Where could Opal Koboi go? the.”

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259. “Oh, I’m crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I’ve got them all, but most of all, I’m crazy about you.”

— Eoin Colfer

260. “Holly, I wish you wouldn’t appear like that. I’m a bodyguard. I get jumpy.”

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261. “Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.”

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262. “She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs. And although she smiled, her heart was breaking.”

— Eoin Colfer

263. “And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory?”

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264. “The name’s Bond. James Omar Bond.”

— Eoin Colfer

265. “In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.”

— Eoin Colfer

266. “Red was smiling back at me. “Ok. I’m not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn’t start beating for the first time in a month.” I couldn’t deny it. So I didn’t.”

— Eoin Colfer

267. “Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping.”

— Eoin Colfer

268. “Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents.”

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269. “It’s a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn’t have to talk to grownups.”

— Eoin Colfer

270. “Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.”

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271. “Everyone nodded. Technically it was correct, as they did know it now.”

— Eoin Colfer

272. “As the clinic’s janitors, it had been a simple matter for Merv and Scant to plant the acid balloons the previous evening. Of.”

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273. “Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.”

— Eoin Colfer

274. “There are a lot of hopes riding on you. But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.”

— Eoin Colfer

275. “Mortals, screw ’em.”

— Eoin Colfer

276. “I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I’m often forced to read in the bathroom.”

— Eoin Colfer

277. “I don’t trust any of you.”

— Eoin Colfer

278. “Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they’d phone their lawyer on the way down.”

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279. “The great Stephen King once wrote don’t sweat the small stuff, which I mulled over for long enough to realise that I don’t entirely agree with it. I get what he means: we all have enough major sorrow in our lives without freaking out over the day-today hangnails and such, but sometimes sweating the small stuff helps you make it through the big stuff.”

— Eoin Colfer

280. “I tried to talk about National Geographic one night, and Jason gave me a look like I was insulting him, so I moved on to a safer subject: which of the girls have implants.”

— Eoin Colfer

281. “Foaly is singing,” said Holly. “Surely that’s illegal?”

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282. “Artemis landed on the body heap and blinked the mud from his eyes. Someone, or something, stood naked before him, an ethereal figure glowing with divine light from head to foot. It reached out a shining hand and spoke in a deep movie promo voice: “Pull my finger.”

— Eoin Colfer

283. “But always among the humans, there are those individuals who would control all they see and are threatened by that which they do not understand.”

— Eoin Colfer

284. “I met Jesus,’ mumbled Vern, his head coming up. ‘He weren’t even a good carpenter.”

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285. “And not just a troll, Bellico realized. A troll and its rider. Mulch Diggums was clamped to the back of the troll’s head with a hank of hair in each hand.”

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286. “Artemis stepped into his mother’s embrace. It was warm and strong. She was wearing perfume. He felt like the boy he was.”

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287. “I have it on very good authority that I have a lovely pee-pee, so lay off.”

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288. “I outta get one of those flip signs, Vern thought. “No homicides in: 2923 days.”

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289. “How about the adventures of Gloop and Angry Hamster in the Dimension of Fire?”

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290. “I like to be loved, he thought, but he did not voice the notion.”

— Eoin Colfer