But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to."
"Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.


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Excuse me, Tex," the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babi...
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Red was smiling back at me. “Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating f...
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When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprise...
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Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.
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Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.
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It felt like my teeth were sweating. Eoin Colfer's The Legend of Spud Murphy
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Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
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Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed spac...
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Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.
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Some people just needed to be stolen from.
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They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enli...
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This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot
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The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
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Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal.
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Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
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Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week."
The ma...
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I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that ...
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The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really fe...
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Maybe I owe you something too, human," she said, drawing her pistol. Butler almost reacted, but deci...
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Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
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Artemis simple-toon
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I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth.

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

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

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