There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his day...
The boy who kidnapped Holly Short all those years ago would never have entertained the notion of sacrificing himself. But he was no longer that boy. His parents were restored to him, and he had brothe...
Myishi will kick Phonetix’s butt next quarter.
Maybe I'm just gonna kill you, says Mike, peeved at being predictable. You ever think of that?No, Mike. Because if you wanted me dead, then four or five of your guys would be in the hospital and I'd h...
Ik weet niet hoe het komt, kapitein Short, maar telkens wanneer je het met me eens dreigt te zijn, word ik bijzonder nerveus. - Root
Ik weet het nog goed,' begon Wurm melodramatisch. 'Het was een donkere nacht.
Angeline, distraught over her son's obsession and afraid of the effects of the past year on Artemis's mind, signed her thirteen-year-old up for treatment with the school counselor. You have to feel so...
About Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.
Professor Charles Smart
I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.
Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history...
That’s not how it works, Foaly. Consultants don’t give orders to captains. We have a Koboi sighting coming through on a satellite. It’s a live feed, countered the technical consultant. We’re on our wa...
Si gano, soy un genio. Si pierdo, estoy loco. Así es como se escribe la historia.
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.
Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionai...
In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.
Ik ben een centaur, ja, een centaur, dat ben ik. Het is niets voor jou om zo te overdrijven, Artemis.''Foaly zingt,' zei Holly. 'Dat is toch tegen de regels?'Vinyáya knipte met haar vingers. 'Stilte,...
If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written
Holly frowned at her. Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly.Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health.Child geniuses, growled Holly.Genii, said Minerva.
Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.