Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

The faded eighteenth-century villa stood some distance away from Ravello, reached by a path that twisted along the side of the mountain, high above

them cradling automatic machine guns. Mrs. Stellenbosch

She actually found it on the first page.

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything makes sense. Just about every whodunnit provides that pleasure.

The fact is, you're as bad as some of those scum journalists who reported it. Stephanie was a lovely girl, lovely, and for a time we were happy together. But she was a mess. She drank and she took recreational drugs and in the end she died in Barbados. But I wasn't even on the boat when it happened.

That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily.

Alex was surrounded by 7 of the most dangerous and unpredictable people on the planet. It was just a question of which one would kill him first.

His choice of books was too diverse to tell me anything: literary fiction, thrillers, classics… everything from Dan Brown to Dostoyevsky.

I never believe everything anyone says.' 'Including me?' He smiled. 'Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.

could hear his voice. "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas…

This is 1955, for heaven's sake. Not the Middle Ages! Of course, it doesn't help having the bloody Tories still in power but you'd have thought we'd have moved away from the days when people were given wealth and power simply because of an accident of birth.

One second behind the wheel of a car she shouldn't have been driving and she killed my child and took everything away from me. I'm a Christian. I go to church. I've tried to forgive her. But I'd be lying to you if I said that I wasn't glad when I heard someone had murdered her. It may be a sin and it may be wrong of me

Two women, both divorced, both with a grudge against the smooth-talking solicitor who had humiliated them.

He fixed it in one of those machines that uses capsules and froths up the milk on the side.

He was forty-three years old now and he was beginning to see that this was his life. These were the cards that he had been dealt.

Man was a complicated animal capable of extraordinary good and great evil – but he was definitely on his own.

We've already agreed that I can't write about Ahmet or Pranav. So presumably I can't write about Maureen or Sky either . . . because they're both women! Or Lucky because he's a dog! At the end of the day, if I listened to you, I'd only write about myself! A book full of middle-aged white writers describing middle-aged white writers being murdered by middle-aged white writers!

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said. We weren't married, by the way. Andreas had proposed to me, doing the whole diamond-ring-down-on-one-knee thing, but we had both been too busy to follow through, and anyway, my Greek wasn't good enough yet to understand the service.

She had been dominating, assertive. He was softly spoken, downtrodden, with thinning hair and a face that was mournful now for good reason but which might have been the same since the day he got married.

she's trying another tack. 'Do you really believe

One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what? He had no idea.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.