Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

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

So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.