Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

Sun worshippers? No. These people were here because they worshipped themselves.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. And that day it was all smashed.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

a detective must occasionally be guided by his worst imaginings – which is to say that he must put himself in the mind of the criminal.

I'm surrounded by silence but at the same time I'm drowning in words and it hardly ever leaves me, that sense of disconnection.

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?

said. "Who are you? Was my uncle working for you? Did you kill him?" "So many questions," Crawley muttered. "But I'm afraid we're not authorized to give you the answers." The second man lifted his hand and Alex saw that he was holding a gun. He stood up behind the desk, holding the file as if to protect himself. "No…" he began. The man

If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.

Alex watched her leave. So it was true what Yassen had said. Her last question had proved it. He knew who he was. The son of a contract killer.

Ban Nab. It's a palindrome.' He said nothing, so I added: 'It reads the same forwards and backwards.' 'Do geese see God?' Hawthorne asked.

One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in

Alex listened as the two men argued, neither really listening to what the other had to say. So this was how the government worked!

He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.

As Leo had said to me, none of us knew what our crime was, but reading the book was certainly a punishment. The

The food at the Mandarin Club was not good, but the members liked it that way. It reminded them of school.

You know the mistake I made tonight ? It was believing in you. Well, Mr James Bond 007, whatever you were is gone. It belongs to another time. There are no more heroes any more.

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

Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.

It felt strange. I was about to read one murder mystery while sitting inside another.

Stop right there,' I said. 'If we're going to have rules, the main rule is that you never ask me about my private life: not my books, not my TV, not my family, not my friends.' 'I'm interested you put them in that order...

And what of the vicar? The word sat at the top of the page, underlined. That would suggest some sort of operation involving religion, but frankly, church was the last place you would expect to find anyone from Scorpia.

life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

aunque, como ya he contado, procuraba no llenar su mente con información que en su opinión careciera de valor material. Que el cielo protegiera al hombre que intentara entablar una conversación con él acerca de política o filosofía: un niño de diez años sabría más. Una cosa puedo decir acerca de aquella tarde: