“You're never too young to die.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“Believe me, It would be better if we didn't 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 you're still a child.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalis, I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.'
'It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“We have four blocks here. Block A, where we are now, is administration and recreation. Block B is software development. Block C is research and storage. Block D is where the main Stormbreaker assembly line is found.” “Where’s breakfast?” Alex asked.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“the usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“said. “Who are you? Was my uncle working for you? Did you kill him?” “So many questions,” Crawley muttered. “But I’m afraid we’re not authorized to give you the answers.” The second man lifted his hand and Alex saw that he was holding a gun. He stood up behind the desk, holding the file as if to protect himself. “No…” he began. The man”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“The Portuguese man-of-war,” Sayle continued. He had a heavy accent brought with him from the Cairo marketplace. “It’s beautiful, don’t you think?” “I wouldn’t keep one as a pet,” Alex said. “I”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“pointing the way ahead and throwing pure, white light on to his immediate surroundings. Alex was at the start of a long tunnel,”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“seconds he was forty, fifty yards”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
“WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news. Alex”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Stormbreaker
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“Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made.”
― Amanda Bouchet, quote from A Promise of Fire
“represented a certain ideal. It’s our attachment to an idealized relationship that is hard to let go of. If your friend lied to you, if your lover cheated on you, or if someone simply decided they didn’t want to be in a relationship with you anymore, they are not right for you. It may feel like they are, even though they hurt you, but they aren’t. You know who is right for you? The person who is everything you love about your ex, except for the part that hurt you. There are 7 billion people on the planet, and it’s naive and scientifically ridiculous to believe that such a person does not exist.”
― Lilly Singh, quote from How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
“I’m with you on measuring this week in letters and the two-day drought we are about to experience. If only there was a way to transport letters faster, through some sort of electronic device that codes messages and sends them through the air. But that’s just crazy talk.
Friday from me:
Sending letters through the sky? Like when airplanes attach notes to their tails? I thought they only advertised for going-out-of-business sales. But perhaps our letters would be okay up there as well. I wonder how much they charge per word.”
― Kasie West, quote from P.S. I Like You
“They’ll hear about your husband’s fortune. The suitors will begin to gather, and I want you to promise me this. Whenever one of them proposes, as they will, Doris must say rapturously, ‘Oh, David! All my life I’ve wanted to live in Israel.’ When he hears that she intends to live there instead of bringing him to the United States, you’ll see his interest evaporate. I said evaporate. It vanishes.” He waved his hands violently back and forth across his face to indicate total abolishment.”
― James A. Michener, quote from The Drifters
“Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.” The former is easy enough, and is what even an accomplished loafer has to go through before he reaches the latter and more blissful state. It takes years of practice to relax sufficiently to be able to “just set.” I’d learned it years ago. But”
― Theodore Sturgeon, quote from The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God
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