Catherine Broekhart stepped in from the balcony, where she had been waiting, and joined the embrace. The guard at the door was tempted, but decided against it.
Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell?
Artemis and Holly stood there in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions, and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digit...
Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family’s fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time…
And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory?
A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl
A change had come over No1. Initially, he had been snivelling—standard No1 behavior—but now the tears were drying on his cheeks, and his eyes were hard., he thought. This was a big breakthrough for No...
The amorphobots had entered the ambulance through the air lock and morphed into one in the ambulance’s only cell. Actually, the bot holding Mulch Diggums was excluded from the morph, as the other bots...
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers.Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?
It was a woefully inadequate response, and Artemis was instantly appalled with himself. Pathetic really: I don’t like lollipops. No self-respecting criminal mastermind would be caught dead even using...
Humanity was heaved back to the paper age in half a second. Life-support systems spat out bolts of energy and died. Precious manuscripts were lost. Banks collapsed as all financial records for the pas...
Here we are, said Berthold, mopping his forehead with a Kleenex. A section of the paper remained trapped in the worry lines of his forehead, and fluttered there like a windsock in the air-conditioner...
He had also written a computer
Cosmo was halfway through a particularly nasty dream involving two Parasites, Ziplock, and a hair dryer,
Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.
Artemis: I am not buoyed by that.Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized.Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not...
Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: But I don’t want to go among mad people, said Alice. Oh, you can’t help that, said the cat. We’re all mad here.
ARTEMIS was making final preparations in his office, updating his will and trying to master his feelings, tamping down a flat grey sky of sadness that threatened to cloud his resolve. He knew that Doc...
It was funny how quickly a person's priorities could change. This morning he had been worried about which loafers to wear with his suit, and now all he could think about was the fact that his dearest...
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.