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Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete. -- Eoin Colfer
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally. -- Eoin Colfer
Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal. -- Eoin Colfer
I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal. -- Eoin Colfer
Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws. -- Eoin Colfer
[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here. -- Maria V. Snyder
I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn." Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything. -- Eoin Colfer
Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs. -- Eoin Colfer
It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon. Opal tapped this into her notepad. Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable? -- Eoin Colfer
the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ... -- Anais Nin
My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring. -- Arthur Symons
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal. -- Lilian Whiting
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. -- William Shakespeare
Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. -- Gladys Taber
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. -- Freya Stark
The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west... -- Robert Loveman
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can! -- Gertrude Bell
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. -- John Steinbeck
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind. -- Denise Levertov
In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own. -- Victoria Finlay
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold. -- Oscar Wilde
I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name! -- Robert Loveman
Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead. -- Eoin Colfer
There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
The sky was pure opal now. -- Oscar Wilde
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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