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“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.”
― Sharon Lee, Local Custom

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”
― Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars

“Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.”
― Frank Beddor, Seeing Redd

“Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it”
― Frank Beddor

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Foaly: Anyone see you come in here?
Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB.
Foaly: The EIB?
Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl Band 1-3

“Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression.
Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case?
Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor.
Doctor Po: Yes?
Artemis: My mother, she...
Doctor Po: Your mother, yes?
Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

“Trust me. I'm a genius.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Good. Illegal is always faster.”
― Eoin Colfer

“We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

“The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Artemis Fowl will never be secondary."

"I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian

“We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough."

..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian

“Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers”
― Eoin Colfer

“Don't worry chief,"said foaly,"It's like riding a unicorn,you never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”
― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations

“Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

“Satan was crouched in the corner of his office, playing a gameboy, 'Die alien scum' he was saying feverishly..”
― Eoin Colfer, The Wish List

“The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox