“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?”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“I have a couple of questions," he said.
"Do, please, go ahead."
"My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?"
"I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!"
"Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time."
"I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn’t, and so had cut the world down to his own size.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“if Cray leaves a kitchen knife lying around, I’m going to shove it somewhere painful…”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Eagle Strike
“I had been right, this was just the sort of place where superstition and tittle-tattle were rife, and even allowed to hold sway over commonsense. Now,”
― Susan Hill, quote from The Woman in Black
“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Factotum
“In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Penultimate Peril
“There had been many definitions of Man; he would make another: “The noise-producing animal.” Now there was only the nearly imperceptible murmur of his own engine. He had no need to blow the horn. There were no back-firing trucks, no snorting trains, no pounding planes overhead. In the little towns no whistles blew or bells rang or radios blared or people talked. Even if it was the peace of death, still that was a kind of peace.”
― George R. Stewart, quote from Earth Abides
“Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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