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.
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?
You must have been going very fast.””I was, until I hit the fence.
I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You’re not going to tell me you’re afraid of a little prick?””I wouldn’t call you that…
All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
When you are in his sort of business – now my business – you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.
She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn’t quite possible.
The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I’m not making any judgement. It’s just the sort of thing I can’t help but notice.
You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.
The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape,” she explained. “She was crushed.””I’d have been disappointed too.
I didn’t set fire to the building.””No, but you did pull it into the river.””That put the fire out!
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That’s why they become politicians.
Sometimes it’s the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.
I don’t know what I’d do without you. There’s no one else to look after me. And it’s not just that. I sometimes think you’re the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I’m with you.
I think my reputation will look after itself,” Holmes said. “If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
I don’t know anything!’ Tim(Caleb) wailed.He’d never spoken a truer word in his life.
It was quite elementary,’ returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.
You look at me as if I were a conjuror,’ Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
There’s a name for people with an interest in the moon,” Alex said. “They’re called lunatics.
Was it fate? Was it destiny?””I think it was Alan Blunt.
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.
We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It’s all down to choice.
You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.”Are you saying I have no choice?”We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
You can kiss me if you like,” she said.Alex let go of her and turned away. “Thanks, Fiona,” he said. “But frankly I’d prefer to kiss the horse.
What happened?” he demanded. “I heard an explosion!””Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.””What?””I set fire to the boat.””But we’re on the boat!””I know.
Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer…””Just talking to you makes me suffer,” Alex said.
They didn’t just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you’re going and when you’re going to be there.
You’ve already said you were going to kill me,” Alex said, “but I didn’t think that meant you were going to bore me to death.
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.