Really, I’m trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she’s singing, but it doesn’t appear to be over

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

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.

Look! said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, Someone who cares!

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.

Orion brightened. I have an idea.Yes? said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.Why don’t we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn’t work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.

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.

It’s like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

If you were me, then I’d be you, and if I were you, then I’d hide somewhere far away.

Me, Artemis blurted. I’m the nut.Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell.I’m the nut! Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.

No matter what dimension you’re in, there’s a big-headed male trying to take over the world.