Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

Abbiatico and Salvinelli," he said. "It cost me thirty grand—or my mother, anyway.

From the moment I was able to make my own decisions, I became what has come to be called a vegetarian – a word that originated here in England, you might like to know.

the covers, I tried to persuade myself that everything would be all right. It was the beginning of the longest night of my life. I took off my outer clothes and lay down on the second bunk but I couldn't sleep. I was frightened that the fire would go out. I was

I've made some tea,' Judith Matheson said. Of course she had. She was the sort of woman who would always make tea no matter what the crisis. Lose your leg in a hideous industrial accident and she'd be there with a nice cup of Earl Grey.

Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.

a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

as we turned the corner and began to walk down the rutted track that led to Staples Inn Gardens. The moment we appeared, the hurdy-gurdy man stopped playing and I recalled that he had behaved in exactly the same way the last time we had come here. It would have been natural for Jones to make straight for the barber's shop – was that not

It's none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

very wise man once defined charity in the following way. He said it was poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries

Evil will never win entirely. It can't. It's not in its nature.

Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.

It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad.

It's a simple fact of life that a clever private detective needs a much less clever police officer in much the same way as a photograph needs both light and darkness.

he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

I have spoken to you before of the nature of human wickedness, my friend. How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.

How could you not wish to see what tomorrow brings? How could you not want to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, to eat ice cream in the Piazza Navona, to watch the children throwing coins into the fountain?

by huge, solid trunks with the sky blotted out

German accent, as if he

Somehow, she was always there when you needed her. The trouble was, she was also there when you didn't.

Moxham was strikingly beautiful, the sort of place that turns up in jigsaw puzzles or Harry Potter films.

The grieving widow,' Hawthorne muttered. 'Do you think so?' 'No, Tony. I've seen more grief at a Turkish wedding. If you ask me, I'd say there's a lot of things she's not telling

You can call it that if you like, but what was I to do? I was desperate. I would have had to move out. I had no job, no income, nowhere to go. Philip was in the cemetery and nobody cared about me.