The Sentence is Death Quotes

“He wasn’t being deliberately offensive. It was just that offensive was his default mode.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“If you’ve ever read the French philosopher Alain Badiou, you’ll know that he defines jokes as a type of rupture that opens up truths.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“This was a woman who didn’t just go to bed with a book. She went to bed with a library.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“From my experience, law firms are always quiet places. Maybe it’s because they make words so expensive that they tend to use them sparingly among themselves.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“It’s a simple fact of life that a clever private detective needs a much less clever police officer in much the same way as a photograph needs both light and darkness.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“It’s funny but I never quite know what to say when people tell me that they like my books. I almost feel embarrassed. ‘That’s great,’ I muttered. ‘Thank you.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“relationship and twenty-five years later we are still together. I had written four shows for her: Foyle’s War, Injustice, Collision and Menace. She was the first person to read my books, even before Hilda Starke. It feels odd to be writing about her and the truth is she has made it clear that she’s uncomfortable being a character in my book. Unfortunately, truth is what it’s all about. She is the main character in my life. ‘You’re working with that detective again, aren’t you?’ she said as we sat there, eating. ‘Yes.’ I hadn’t wanted her to know but I never tell her lies. She can see right through me. ‘Is that a good idea?’ ‘Not really. But I have a three-book deal and a case came up.’ I felt guilty. I knew she was waiting for my script. ‘I think it’s over anyway,’ I went on. ‘Hawthorne knows who did it.’ He hadn’t said as much but I could tell. There was something quite animalistic about Hawthorne. The closer he got to the truth, the more you could see it in his eyes, in the way he sat, in the very contours of his skin. He really was the dog with the bone. I’d hoped we might”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“A novel is a container for 80,000 to 90,000 words and you might see it as a jelly mould. You pour them all in and hope they’ll set.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“And I can absolutely see her beating someone to death because she was annoyed with them. Mind you, she’d probably torture them first by reading them one of her poems.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“Adrian Lockwood was the sort of man who was hard to dislike although he was doing everything he could to help us on our way.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“I've met police dogs with more intelligence than those two. You could tell them everything we've done, down to the last word, and they'd still end up running around in a circle, sniffing each other's arses.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“Virgin”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“It feels odd to be writing about her and the truth is she has made it clear that she’s uncomfortable being a character in my book. Unfortunately, truth is what it’s all about. She is the main character in my life.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“That’s one of the pleasures of living in London. It’s so huge, so jammed with interesting buildings, that it’s always taking you by surprise.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“but I want you to know that it was him who said what we were going to do once we got out. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. I always heard he had a reputation for telling the truth but that wasn’t what he did this time, not when it would have stayed with him for the rest of his life. And think what it would have done for his career!!! Not the Blunt Razor. The Blubbing Loser.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“I mean, that number on the wall for a start! What sort of person bludgeons someone to death and then wastes time painting cryptic messages for the police to find?”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“figured it wasn’t Davina. She drinks like a fish. Again, who drinks Coca-Cola at eight o’clock in the evening?”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“know the truth now and it’s that Richard betrayed us,’ she said. ‘He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he’d been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn’t been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“You used me to get back at Grunshaw.’ ‘I thought you’d be pleased, mate. She’s going to have egg all over her face. The Assistant Commissioner isn’t going to be pleased.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“It was my moment in the sun. I tried to remember if I had left anything out. But no, it was all there.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“RAF pilots used to eat bilberries when they were flying night missions during the war.’ I was quite proud of that. It was something I had learned researching Foyle’s War.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“Two women, both divorced, both with a grudge against the smooth-talking solicitor who had humiliated them.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“The fact is, you’re as bad as some of those scum journalists who reported it. Stephanie was a lovely girl, lovely, and for a time we were happy together. But she was a mess. She drank and she took recreational drugs and in the end she died in Barbados. But I wasn’t even on the boat when it happened.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“flower blossoming in the car park or the sparrowhawk losing its feathers or any of the other rubbish she saw fit to print.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“But that’s impossible. They’re full of pornography.’ I searched for the worst thing I could say about them. ‘They objectify women!”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“Akira Anno is Mark Belladonna, isn’t she! Mark doesn’t exist.’ He rounded on Akira. ‘You wrote those stupid books.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“But if she’d known him better, she might have been a little less curt with him. I saw the anger stirring in his eyes and it made me think of a crocodile rising from the mud.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“Hawthorne ignored this. ‘Why did Akira Anno lie about being with you?’ he asked. ‘Having supper with an old friend, a publisher … you’d have thought there was nothing more innocent in the world.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death

“He drew a picture of me in court as a woman entirely dependent on the financial acumen of my husband, even though said husband was a drunk and a womaniser who had inherited all his wealth from his equally squalid father.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Sentence is Death