Quotes From "The Atlantis Complex" By Eoin Colfer

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You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by. Eoin Colfer
Look!
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Look! " said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares! Eoin Colfer
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Orion brightened. "I have an idea."" Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained." Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other. Eoin Colfer
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Me, " Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell." I'm the nut! " Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said. Eoin Colfer
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How do I love thee? wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally..obviously eternally-that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely, " said the centaur "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately." "Oh, I would never." Orion assured her. "Ladies don't look for birthmarks; that is work for jolly fellows like the Goodly Beast and myself. Ladies, like Miss Short, do enough by simply existing. They exude beauty, and that is enough." "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." Holly gripped the wheel tightly. "I'm going to be sick. Did he just say pastel blue?" "And dolphins, little ones, " said Foaly. Eoin Colfer
Orion nodded, then asked, “Dwarf cheese?”“ Cheese made by dwarfs.”“...
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Orion nodded, then asked, “Dwarf cheese?”“ Cheese made by dwarfs.”“ Oh, ” said Orion, relieved. “They make it. It’s not actually .. .”“No. What a horrible thought.”“ Exactly. Eoin Colfer