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Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.


Chris Colfer

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EOIN COLFER The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.
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EOIN COLFER Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
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EOIN COLFER Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
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The ma...
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EOIN COLFER Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
EOIN COLFER Artemis simple-toon
EOIN COLFER I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth.

Orion tapped her shoulder. ...
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EOIN COLFER Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping.
EOIN COLFER I'm the nut!
EOIN COLFER Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Hors...
EOIN COLFER Earth,” he began, ignoring the impulse to open his notes folder and count the words. He knew this ...
EOIN COLFER Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube...
EOIN COLFER Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?"
"Of course we did. ...
EOIN COLFER Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your ...
EOIN COLFER Butler snapped his fingers. "Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have th...
EOIN COLFER Artemis: I am not buoyed by that.
Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are sup...
EOIN COLFER Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles."

Holly opened the throttle...
EOIN COLFER Very well, I promise. So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" cro...
EOIN COLFER Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut."
Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before br...
EOIN COLFER So, what did you get for me?"
Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans."
"What?" croaked Artemis...
EOIN COLFER Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it."
Foaly: "Smite it wi...
EOIN COLFER Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, O...
EOIN COLFER Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said.

"Not me!" said Ori...
EOIN COLFER Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?
EOIN COLFER All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.
EOIN COLFER Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from...
EOIN COLFER He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in ...
EOIN COLFER She strode across the McGraney boundary without a backward glance, legs cutting twin swatches in the...
EOIN COLFER Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “But I don’t want to go ...
EOIN COLFER The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trouse...
EOIN COLFER It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; ...
EOIN COLFER