“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
“Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred”
― quote from The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.”
― Beryl Markham, quote from West with the Night
“I picked up another book, and we sat there in the happiest silence I’d ever known.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Siren
“I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you’ve thought in a certain way for many years, if you’ve had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you’re bound to feel … disconnected”
― Mary Lawson, quote from Crow Lake
“You're a punk?'
'What?'
'What do they call people from the eighties?' I asked.
'Oh,' she laughed. It was a beautiful laugh. 'I'm my mother, actually. I mean, these are her clothes from High School. I guess I should tell people I'm Cyndi Lauper though, or something, because dressing up as your mother is pretty lame.'
'I almost dressed up as my mother,' I said, 'but I was worried what my therapist would say.'
She laughed again, and I realized that she thought I was joking. It was probably for the best, since telling her the second half of my mom costume - a giant fake butcher knife through the head - would probably freak her out.”
― Dan Wells, quote from I Am Not A Serial Killer
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