Tell me,’ Artemis said, his voice still weak. ‘How do I know you?’ And so Holly began her story: ‘It all started in Ho Chi Minh City one summer. It was sweltering by anyone’s standards. Needless to sa...
Sie haben diesen Mistkerl genau da erwischt, wo es wehtut: bei seinem Ehrgeiz.
One: listen to your commander—he is always right. Two: ignore all hunches, unless suggested by your commander, who is always right. Three: if in doubt, call your commander. The one who is always right...
Nee,' zei ze, 'ik zal hem niet missen.'Maar haar ogen vertelden een heel ander verhaal.
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty a...
Miss Paradizo, he said gently. Minerva. Listen to me for a few moments—you will feel the truth of what I say.Minerva tutted. Why is that? Because we're connected?Actually, we are. We are similar peopl...
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...
Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my sh...
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.
Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.
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 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?
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?
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.
I am not exuding anything, said Holly through gritted teeth.Orion tapped her shoulder. I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.
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...
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...