Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

It is true that we have many ways of coping with loss,' he said. 'And grief is never rational.

met a woman named Julia Rothman. She was very beautiful but a complete bitch.

Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.

These people...I've never come across anyone like them. You want the truth? They make Scorpia look like a vicar's tea party.

He was an invisible man with no background and no foreground, and plans, strategies and conspiracies he would have taken with him to the grave.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

You're saying that you've managed to arrest a kid who's an insane criminal. You've put him in a prison with six other insane criminals, and you want Alex to pretend to be an insane criminal and move in with them. Well, you know what I think of that idea? It's insane!

It's funny but I never quite know what to say when people tell me that they like my books. I almost feel embarrassed. 'That's great,' I muttered. 'Thank you.

Try to Kill the Children!

Adrian Lockwood was the sort of man who was hard to dislike although he was doing everything he could to help us on our way.

Routine was going to kill Michael J. Roscoe and this was the day death had chosen to come calling. Of

And I can absolutely see her beating someone to death because she was annoyed with them. Mind you, she'd probably torture them first by reading them one of her poems.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. A

It meant nothing to me. You can stick a piece of metal on a coward and a liar but it won't change what he is.

When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.

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.

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

It's easy enough to change your personality, to become evil. The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you.

He had discovered the secret of war, the moment when soldiers cast aside their fear and become part of a machine that is so much bigger than themselves. For only then are they prepared to die.

It was an Édith Piaf album, Chansons Parisiennes.

The most obvious conclusions are the ones I try to avoid.

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

Good to have you on the team!

She really was the genie to my Aladdin, although as far as I could recall, I had never rubbed the magic lamp.