Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

Believe me, It would be better if we didnt meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and youre still a child.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?Is that including, or not including you?

You must have been going very fast.I was, until I hit the fence.

I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. Youre not going to tell me youre afraid of a little prick?I wouldnt call you that...

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasnt quite possible.

The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. Im not making any judgement. Its just the sort of thing I cant help but notice.

Youre my closest friend and youre thousands of miles away.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape, she explained. She was crushed.Id have been disappointed too.

I didnt set fire to the building.No, but you did pull it into the river.That put the fire out!

You must know that feeling when its raining outside and the heatings on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick. He didnt say anything but he stood there, looking sadly at Andreas and me, and as a shaft of moonlight came slanting in through the window, I recognized Atticus Pünd. I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

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.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.Thats why they become politicians.

Sometimes its the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

I dont know what Id do without you. Theres no one else to look after me. And its not just that. I sometimes think youre the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when Im with you.

I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives Ive ever read about, its their inherent loneliness. The suspects know each other. They may well be family or friends. But the detective is always the outsider. He asks the necessary questions but he doesnt actually form a relationship with anyone. He doesnt trust them, and they in turn are afraid of him. Its a relationship based entirely on deception and its one that, ultimately, goes nowhere. Once the killer has been identified, the detective leaves and is never seen again. In fact, everyone is glad to see the back of him.

I think my reputation will look after itself, Holmes said. If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.