Anthony Horowitz Quotes

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.
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Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.
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He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you.""Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.
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They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
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What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.
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Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film."Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?""I just told you.""You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider.""Why ask if you think you know?
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Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer...""Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.
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No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.
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It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative fiction to survive without them. And yet there are almost none in real life, unless you happen to live in the wrong area. Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery? And what is it that attracts us? The crime, or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable?
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You can kiss me if you like," she said.Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.
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You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.''Are you saying I have no choice?''We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
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We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.
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Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.
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The world was healing itself.
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Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
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Was it fate? Was it destiny?""I think it was Alan Blunt.
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There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.
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It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.
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You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
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As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.
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I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
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Nice day for a funeral.
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I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
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I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent loneliness. The suspects know each other. They may well be family or friends. But the detective is always the outsider. He asks the necessary questions but he doesn't actually form a relationship with anyone. He doesn't trust them, and they in turn are afraid of him. It's a relationship based entirely on deception and it's one that, ultimately, goes nowhere. Once the killer has been identified, the detective leaves and is never seen again. In fact, everyone is glad to see the back of him.
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Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.
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I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.
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But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That's why they become politicians.
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Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.
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Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick. He didn't say anything but he stood there, looking sadly at Andreas and me, and as a shaft of moonlight came slanting in through the window, I recognized Atticus Pünd. I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.
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Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
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You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.
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I didn't set fire to the building.""No, but you did pull it into the river.""That put the fire out!
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The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed.""I'd have been disappointed too.
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You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
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The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I'm not making any judgement. It's just the sort of thing I can't help but notice.
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She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.
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She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.
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When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.
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All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
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I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?""I wouldn't call you that...
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You must have been going very fast.""I was, until I hit the fence.
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Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?""Is that including, or not including you?
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Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
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