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Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Told
Decision
Making
Fowl
Means
Shutting
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Artemis
Command
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Artemis Fowl will never be secondary. I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second? said Holly.
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Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.
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I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?
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Look! said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, Someone who cares!
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Holly walked rapidly into the cockpit, strapping herself into the pilot's chair. Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get at least twenty-four? Artemis strapped himself into the co-pilot's chair. I don't think Opal bothers with laws.
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Very well. I understand. Just ... shut up!
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Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling. “I remember,” she said aloud. “You saved me.” Artemis smiled back. “It never happened,” he said.
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Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. Mmm, he mumbled around his tongue. Horse. Tasty Let's go, said Foaly nervously. Let's go right now.
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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.
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Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly
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Trust me. I'm a genius.
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I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today. He leaned in close and whispered, I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.
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A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
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I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!
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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.
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