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1 " When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. "
― Anthony Horowitz , The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery, #1)
2 " Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you’d achieved would one day fit inside. "
3 " But the thing is, you see -and to be honest, I don't like to mention this- I'm a bit short. There just aren't enough people getting murdered. "
4 " There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we’re so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that’s how it is. It’s why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen word can bring all sorts of trouble down on "
5 " You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. And that day it was all smashed. "
6 " Café Mortel, an opportunity to discuss one’s mortality over tea and cake. "
7 " For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel. "
8 " Hawthorne certainly had a magnetic personality. Although, of course, magnets can repel as well as attract. "
9 " Diana Cowper had planned her funeral and she was going to need it. She was murdered about six hours later that same day. "
10 " Almost two hundred thousand books are published in the UK every year and although some of them will have the advantage of a well-known author attached, the vast majority have just two or three words on a surface measuring no more than six by nine inches to sell themselves. Titles have to be short, smart and meaningful, easy to read, easy to remember and original. That's asking a lot. "
11 " I’m not going to get any "
12 " Stop right there,' I said. 'If we're going to have rules, the main rule is that you never ask me about my private life: not my books, not my TV, not my family, not my friends.''I'm interested you put them in that order... "
13 " You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. "
14 " It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad. "
15 " I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin. "
16 " There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we’re so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that’s how it is. It’s why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. "
17 " We need to tolerate intolerance "
18 " There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we’re so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that’s how it is. It’s why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen word can bring all sorts of trouble down on your head. "
19 " You didn’t mention he had a child.’ ‘I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. "
20 " handsome as a child but something had happened to him at some time in his life so that, although he still wasn’t ugly, he was curiously unattractive. It was as if he had become a bad photograph of himself. "
