“There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked.
"I just thought it might come in useful.”
"Were you planning to attack me?”
"No. But that’s a good idea.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“He died fighting for what he believed in.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?”
"Because they’re talented.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“The food at the Mandarin Club was not good, but the members liked it that way. It reminded them of school.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“There’s a name for people with an interest in the moon,” Alex said. “They’re called lunatics.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“People are snakes, you just have to figure out their different colors, but they're all the same. Everybody wants something.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest High
“Allow your heart to have faith no matter what. It's what will give you strength in troubled times.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Falling Kingdoms
“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.”
― Alison Bechdel, quote from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from My Name Is Memory
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