Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
Eoin Colfer, Airman.
“Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.”
“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”
“Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.”
“He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.”
“Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.”
“A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
“Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore ...”
“I crawled over the mountain of death, Watching the corpses roll down like the stones. Searching for the light which everyone always spoke of. I fought the wolves and also the death, and knocked the...”
“God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”
“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
“Ashes, ashes. Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.We all fall down.”
“I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though Im very fond of my ol...”
“I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.”