“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“It's funny how things work out sometimes.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“Death is the same for the one who dies.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“And what of the vicar? The word sat at the top of the page, underlined. That would suggest some sort of operation involving religion, but frankly, church was the last place you would expect to find anyone from Scorpia.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“We just stood there for a few seconds. Back when we were friends, we'd have already been laughing and joking. Now things were tense and awkward. There was no way I could ever be relaxed around this person again. To me, Sage would never be just Sage. She'd be Sage-the-boy-who-pretended-to-be-a-girl-and-who-I-kissed-that-one-time. No friendship could survive with that many hyphens.”
― Brian Katcher, quote from Almost Perfect
“Every ruler makes enemies. The Lady is no exception. The Sons of the White Rose are everywhere.… If one chooses sides on emotion, then the Rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honor: freedom, independence, truth, the right.… All the subjective illusions, all the eternal trigger-words. We are minions of the villain of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.”
― Glen Cook, quote from Chronicles of the Black Company
“He had tried rather unsuccessfully to cheer her up and give her confidence”
― L. Ron Hubbard, quote from Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
“A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”
~Sherlock Holmes”
― Stephanie Osborn, quote from The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
“No event of any importance in India is complete without a goof-up. In this case, it was relatively minor. When, after the midnight session at the Constituent Assembly, Jawaharlal Nehru went to submit his list of cabinet ministers to the governor general, he handed over an empty envelope. However,”
― Ramachandra Guha, quote from India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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