The Opal Deception Quotes
"Humans are at the center of this particular case."
"Most humans aren’t smart enough to find the leg holes in their trousers, but there are certain Mud Men clever enough to make me nervous."
"In fairy history only one human has bested us."
"Little Arty led the LEP in a merry dance across the continents."
"For almost a year, Opal Koboi had languished in the padded-cell wing of the J. Argon Clinic."
"No one could pretend to be in a coma for almost a year. Surely not."
"The secret life of fairies was almost at an end."
"It’s amazing just how wrong one gnome can be."
"Magic did not help me to escape, science did."
"Studies indicate that Koboi may be a pathological liar, and suffers from mild schizophrenia."
"An obsessive genius and a pathological liar. Just what they needed."
"Alone at last," said Opal, sounding for all the world like an innocent college fairy on her first date.
"The question is, how am I going to get it? What form of revenge would be the most satisfying?"
"It really tugs my beard to put us in harm’s way over a goblin, but that’s the job."
"Your typical take-over-the- world types are not averse to knocking off a few of their own if it means a clean getaway."
"If those doors closed they would be completely cut off from the LEP, and at the mercy of Opal Koboi."
"I’m not surprised he got a dose of food poisoning under your care."
"You will what? Exactly. Die beside your commander?"
"Still, when you worked for Artemis Fowl II, the incredible was almost a daily occurrence."
"Butler’s grip tightened on the leather steering wheel."
"You cannot be serious," muttered Butler, pulling off the motorway at the exit for Fowl Manor."
"It was possible that the kidnappers could have sent a representative."
"Butler knew as soon as he opened the front door that something was wrong."
"The bodyguard’s foot brushed against something."
"Butler cocked his weapon, aiming it squarely at the intruder."
"Mulch burped. "Correct, you’re not as slow as you look.""
""Good," he said. "Illegal is always faster.""
""I have always known humans would discover us eventually, so I have prepared.""
"I have friends? thought Artemis Fowl the Second."
"It seems merely clever in hindsight, but the original idea was pure genius."
"I am so sorry about Julius. I know our relationship was a rocky one, but I had nothing but respect and admiration for the commander."
"Man is going to the center of the earth. Look out below!"
"Courage, Captain. Ask yourself, what would the commander do?"
"Don’t worry. The charges are shaped. The blast is focused down and in. We will feel nothing."
"There’s enough free energy in that metal to power mankind’s machines forever."
"This is no fantasy, sir, I assure you. This is no fantastical voyage."
"But Opal Koboi never left herself without options."
"Artemis Fowl may have beaten her this time, but he wouldn’t live to gloat about it."
"Is there any way to significantly alter that signature?"
"There was no time for fear or panic. There was only time to hang on to something and try to keep her last meal inside her body."
"Artemis stared at the screen as if he could destroy the missiles through concentration."
"The missiles are coming after our heat signature?"
"I’ll keep a close eye on you to make sure you stay on the straight and narrow."
"He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor."
"Let me guess: Artemis Fowl, right? I should have known."