Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

saw it in the papers. When he took that fifty grand off Diana Cowper, it looks like he was ripping her off.' 'Maybe she knew something about him. It could have given him a reason to kill her.

Breakfast, Noah muttered. Greasy and disgusting, said Matt. You don't want to eat it? I wasn't talking about breakfast. I was talking about you.

think there was a part of her that was attracted to people who kill.' 'She admired them?

That's one of the pleasures of living in London. It's so huge, so jammed with interesting buildings, that it's always taking you by surprise.

She wasn't wearing her glasses and she destroyed my life. I went to the funeral because I was delighted she was dead and I wanted to see her put in the ground. I thought it would give me closure.

Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work?

figured it wasn't Davina. She drinks like a fish. Again, who drinks Coca-Cola at eight o'clock in the evening?

Gordon Brown ran this bloody country into the ground and the new lot don't have a clue. So everyone's tightening their belts and people like me are the first out the door.

I mean, that number on the wall for a start! What sort of person bludgeons someone to death and then wastes time painting cryptic messages for the police to find?

The man was enormously fat. When he sat down, the metal chair disappeared beneath the spread of his buttocks and Alex was surprised it could even take his weight.

It was strange how very bad men felt a need to live somewhere not just spectacular but slightly insane.

The Jai Mahal near the St Nicholas Market. It was quite popular, particularly among Bristol students, but the health and safety mob had been in a couple of times and they weren't impressed at all. Our food critic called it the Die Mahal.

you choose to stand too close to the sun you can't complain when you become nothing more than a silhouette.

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

he was going to kick someone down a flight of stairs, of course it would be a paedophile. It reminded me of his behaviour when we had visited Raymond Clunes.

but I want you to know that it was him who said what we were going to do once we got out. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. I always heard he had a reputation for telling the truth but that wasn't what he did this time, not when it would have stayed with him for the rest of his life. And think what it would have done for his career!!! Not the Blunt Razor. The Blubbing Loser.

But such gossip cannot be confronted. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

That's what he said. So if she could see him across the road, that means her eyesight was perfectly good. She made up the whole thing.

cramped compartment for the overhead lockers. As Alex reached up for his own travel bag, the Game Boy almost fell out of his grip. Troy's head snapped around. Alex saw a flash of alarm in her eyes. "Be careful with that!" she

you saw her coming, your first instinct would be to step aside and let her pass.

Charles le Mesurier was quite a formidable opponent and he wouldn't have hesitated to bring the full force of the law against us if we'd crossed the line.

He described Alan as a popular writer whose books had given pleasure to so many millions of people around the world. It was as if Alan was being introduced on a Radio 4 panel show rather than at his own funeral.

That wasn't bad," Tom said. "Almost as good as Alex." "You've got to be kidding," Jack growled. "Alex would have blown them up or forced them off the road. Just a shame I forgot my hand grenade." "Next time," Tom said.

Judith set up Colin with his chambers and she got him into the States. It's her house they live in and her wealth that keeps their three children in private school. And God help him if he steps out of line. She's the one who wears the trousers in that relationship.