Will you miss him Holly?” he asked suddenly. [...] “No,” she said. “I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the real story.

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.

Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.