Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

He had known then, not that he had ever doubted it, that even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.

I thought most kids would give their right arm to go into outer space," Shulsky added unhelpfully. "Haven't you ever dreamt about becoming an astronaut?" "No," Alex said. "I always wanted to be a train driver.

You know, they say in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school. Makes you think, doesn't it.

But there have been times when I have been very much in the shadows, when I have looked into the valley of death and wished – and wished I could enter.

You don't want to be hanging around this village. You don't want to be anywhere near here. Do you understand me? I shouldn't be talking to you like this. But if you know what's good for you, you'll get away. You'll go as far away as you can and you won't come back.

belief that has become the main cause of her illness, Mr Holmes. As I told your colleague, I have tasted every single morsel that has passed her lips with no ill-effect at all. I do not understand the curse that has come upon me. Before I met you, I was a happy man.' 'And hope to be again, I am sure.' We climbed back up to the attic room that I had been in before. As we arrived at the doorway

back across the sand, passing the white concrete

As a rule, I don't go to funerals. I find them too horrible and upsetting and the older I get, of course, the more invitations I receive. As a favour to my friends, I'll make sure that none of them are told the date of mine.

It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary.

His first job was to find some rich lady's pedigree Siamese cat. He managed to run it over on the way to see her. The second job was a divorce case – which you may think is run-of-the-mill until I tell you that the clients were perfectly happily married until he came along… There hadn't been a third case.

Do geese see God?

I prefer to use my name from your world.' he said. 'I'm just Matt'.

And as they turned onto the M40 motorway at Junction 9, near Bicester, not one of them even noticed the oversized helicopter that had suddenly appeared in the sky about a mile behind, like some strange, primeval monster. They didn't see how almost at once, it began to swoop down towards them, trailing something that looked, at least from a distance, like a huge claw…

We need our literary heroes. Life is dark and complicated but they shine out. They're the beacons that we follow.

We used our imagination to create a world of wolves and vampires, ghosts and Cossack warriors—and we chased each other right through the middle of them.

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I've met police dogs with more intelligence than those two. You could tell them everything we've done, down to the last word, and they'd still end up running around in a circle, sniffing each other's arses.

That's the thing about funerals. They're completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it's not true.

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WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex

Café Mortel, an opportunity to discuss one's mortality over tea and cake.

I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope.

But at the same time I recalled something Holmes had said to me many times, namely that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.