Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

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.

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

Do you realise how much trouble you're in?" "Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

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.

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

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.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

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?

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to be carrying at the time. Conrad is something of a scientific miracle. There are more than thirty metal pins in his body. He has a metal plate in his skull. There are metal wires in his jaw and in most of his major joints." "He must set off a lot of airport alarms," Alex muttered.