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The Artemis Fowl Files Quotes
These quotes are ordered as in the book, in chronological order, although I've only placed quotes here from the two stories present in TAFF, there's no quotes from any other part of the book. If you haven't read The Artemis Fowl Files don't keep reading, there's SPOILERS in this page!
LEPrecon
Major Evergreen: "I am LEP: you can't harm me and hope to escape." (page 4)
Turnball Root: "Farewell, Major. And thanks you for your help. You may find difficult to concentrate for the next while, but by the time your resolve return, those straps should have dissolved." (page 10)
Holly: "The animals could die of old age." (page 16)
Phyber: "I really wouldn't do that." about opening the shuttle's rear door)
Holly: "No I'm sure you wouldn't." (page 16)
Root: "Short. You're a girl?"
Holly: "Yessir. Guilty as charged."
Root: "We're not on a date, Short. Keep the witticisms to yourself." (page 19)
Root: "That's right, Corporal. Just you and me on a little adventure. How do you feel about that?" (page 20)
Root: "I wish I could belive that. And maybe I would, if it weren't for that." (pointing at Holly's chest where D'Arvit is written on her traffic suit) (page 21)
Holly: "Cherry place."
Root: "Sorry about that, Corporal. We keep asking the runaways to hide somewhere warm, but darned if they don't keep suiting themselves." (page 26)
Trouble Kelp: "This is the first one-on-one (though). Usually he tracks half a dozen or so, to keep himself amused." (page 27)
Trouble: "(But) you get him all to yourself, 'cause of the female thing. When you fail, Julius doesn't want the equal-rights office to have any reason to complain."
Holly: "When I fail?"
Trouble: "Did I say when? I meant if. Of course, if." (pages 27-28)
Root: "You've got twenty minutes to cry or say your prayers or whatever it is you females do, then I'm comin' a callin'." (page 28)
Trouble: "I majored in Ancient History. You have your own page in the 'Criminally Insane' section." (page 33)
Root (after Turnball captures Trouble): "The parameters of your assignment have changed." (page 48)
Root: "That's a direct order, Short, so take that insolent look off your face, it's making me nervous. And when I get nervous I tend to fire people. Get the message?" (page 50)
Turnball Root: "You don't look so well. We'd better get you inside." (page 57)
Turnball Root: "Murder is a word. Just another word." (page 62)
Holly (when shooting the house down): "What house?" (page 66)
Trouble: "No offence, Commander, but your brother hits like a pixie." (page 69)
Trouble: "Commander. You can't flunk the girl after all this. If it wasn't for her I'd be biodegradating right now." (page 70)
Root: "Very well, Short. If you can do anything to change my mind, now is your chance. Your only chance. Well, can you do anything?"
Holly: "Just this, Commander."
[Holly shoots her paint pistol at Root, three times]
Holly: "You tag me before I tag you, and you're in. No questions asked."
Trouble: "Oh gods. She got you there, Julius. That's what you've said. That's what you've been saying for the past hundred years". (page 71-72)
Root: "You did tag me."
Trouble: "That's right. She did."
Root: "And I did say..."
Trouble: "You certainly did."
Root (turning around to look at Trouble): "What are you? A parrot? Will you shut your trap? I'm trying to swallow my pride here." (page 72)
Root (throwing her acorns to Holly): "Put them on. Welcome to Recon." (page 73)
The Seventh Dwarf
Root: "A few words of advice, pony boy. One, don't call me Julius. And two, there is a protocol in place for speaking to me. I'm the commander here, not one of your polo buddies." (page 123)
Foaly: "We couldn't risk blowing off a fairy's head, even if he or she is a criminal."
Root: "I'm tempted, believe me." (page 125)
Holly: "I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal." (page 130)
Mulch: "So it's blackmail, is it?"
Aremis: "Only if is has to be. I prefer 'cooperation'."(page 135)
Mulch: "Sergei the Significant. I think someone has an inferiority complex." (page 136)
Artemis: "Here is the circus ring." (pointing at it in a plan)
Mulch: "What? The round thing with the word ring in the middle? You don't say." (page 147)
Particularly-dense-dwarf (when the tent falls): "The sky is falling!" (page 175)
Artemis: "Congratulations, Holly. A masterstroke. Now you can report that you broke up a gang of dwarf jewel thieves, and recovered the stolen tiara. A clutch of feathers in your cap, I would think." (page 182)
Holly: "We'll meet again, Artemis Fowl."
Artemis: "I know. I look forward to it." (page 183)
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