Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.


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Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
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Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed spac...
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Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.
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Some people just needed to be stolen from.
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They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enli...
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This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot
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The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
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Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal.
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Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
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Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week."
The ma...
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I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that ...
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The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really fe...
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Maybe I owe you something too, human," she said, drawing her pistol. Butler almost reacted, but deci...
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Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
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Artemis simple-toon
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I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth.

Orion tapped her shoulder. ...
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Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of cour...
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A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl
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Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping.
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I'm the nut!
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Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Hors...
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Earth,” he began, ignoring the impulse to open his notes folder and count the words. He knew this ...
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Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube...
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Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?"
"Of course we did. ...
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Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your ...
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Butler snapped his fingers. "Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have th...
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Artemis: I am not buoyed by that.
Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are sup...
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Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles."

Holly opened the throttle...
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Very well, I promise. So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" cro...
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Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut."
Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before br...
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So, what did you get for me?"
Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans."
"What?" croaked Artemis...
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Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it."
Foaly: "Smite it wi...
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Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, O...
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Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said.

"Not me!" said Ori...
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Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?
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All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.
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Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from...
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He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in ...
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She strode across the McGraney boundary without a backward glance, legs cutting twin swatches in the...
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Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “But I don’t want to go ...
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The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trouse...
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It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; ...
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