A Line to Kill Quotes

“I’m surrounded by silence but at the same time I’m drowning in words and it hardly ever leaves me, that sense of disconnection.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“Ban Nab. It’s a palindrome.’ He said nothing, so I added: ‘It reads the same forwards and backwards.’ ‘Do geese see God?’ Hawthorne asked.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“I’ve made some tea,’ Judith Matheson said. Of course she had. She was the sort of woman who would always make tea no matter what the crisis. Lose your leg in a hideous industrial accident and she’d be there with a nice cup of Earl Grey.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“So that was it: an unhealthy chef, a blind psychic, a war historian, a children’s author, a French performance poet, Hawthorne and me. Not quite the magnificent seven, I couldn’t help thinking.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“You’ve been thrown out, like me, and now you’re on the sidelines, scrubbing around for whatever petty cash you can persuade the police to throw your way and employing a second-rate hack author to write about you because you need the money. That’s what you’ve come to and I’m not afraid of you. Hawthorne Investigates? You’re pathetic!”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“Well, I’m investigating a murder and now a woman has gone missing, so I wasn’t exactly waiting for an invitation,’ Hawthorne replied.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“know you’re only doing your job, Mr Hawthorne, and you don’t really care how you get your results. I was there when you were giving your talk and it struck me then that you have absolutely no heart at all. You don’t believe in the law.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“Given that Alderney isn’t exactly a whirl of social activity, I’m assuming you weren’t invited.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he’d always been so guarded about his private life?”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“He had an extraordinary presence that could be saturnine, threatening or magnetic, depending on his mood.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“It’s one of the paradoxes of being a writer that, physically, there’s not a huge difference between the debut novelist and the international best-seller: they’re each stuck in a room with a laptop, too many Jaffa Cakes and nobody to talk to. I once worked”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“Do geese see God?”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“wanted him to know what it felt like … to gamble for his life,’ Anne said. ‘I left his hand free so that he could toss the coin. I told him to call and that if he got it right, I would let him go.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“You don’t think he deserved it? Charles le Mesurier destroyed my son and made money out of his pain – and the pain of hundreds like him! Go on the website. Look at it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“You must have been sickened when you got an invitation to a literary festival sponsored by Spin-the-wheel.com. I assume they were the same people who killed William.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“Internet gambling is a horrible thing,’ Hawthorne went on, and for once he sounded genuinely sympathetic. ‘Your son was one of around three hundred thousand addicts in the country. There are about five hundred deaths a year and most of them are young men, university students, kids living alone. And the big online gambling companies … they know what they’re doing with those bright lights and flashing colours, the personalised texts and emails,”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“There’s something about Oxford that has always appealed to authors and it seems to me that it has somehow seeped into their work. Think of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Iris Murdoch and, more recently, Philip Pullman. It’s hard to imagine them living anywhere else.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“They had an open marriage. Sex was no big deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if Charles didn’t get off watching this. The two of them were as bad as each other.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“As for myself, I felt nothing but pity for Marc Bellamy. I’d been through the private-education system myself – another version of the full English – and knew only too well how the casual cruelty and the pack mentality that he had described could stay with you for the rest of your life.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“There’s nothing to beat the full English,’ Marc exclaimed. ‘And don’t you give me any of that continental rubbish. Yoghurt and croissant and that horrible concoction they call muesli. If you ask me, that’s the best thing about getting out of the EU, and there’s a long list where that’s concerned.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“At the moment, there’s just the four of us who know that your wife is a cold-hearted, manipulative bitch. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep it that way. What do you think?”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“What?’ I couldn’t believe what he had just said. ‘She’s faking being blind?’ It was one of the most disgusting things I’d ever heard.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“felt particularly sorry for Judith Matheson. She’d put so much work into organising the weekend and what had she got out of it? A dead sponsor, a cut-up lawn and a divorce.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“Actually, I’d say that both of you are fucking idiots, if you want the truth,’ he began. ‘You come over here like Batman and Robin and you get yourselves involved in a murder investigation. But you don’t help anyone because you’ve got bigger fish to fry. In fact, you were obstructive. You say you made no difference to the crime scene, but that’s not true.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“He wants to make money! And he doesn’t care if he trashes my life to get it. I told you. That man is vile. He should never have come to this island. He’s positively evil.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“But although it may not have occurred to you, everything that happens on this island is connected. My grandfather planted that lawn and four generations have been looking after it, keeping it perfect – not just for our pleasure but for everyone who passes.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“What Abbott represented was completely at odds with everything I would enjoy writing about: blue telephone boxes, beaches and fortifications, seagulls, miniature steak and kidney puddings, ginger-haired taxi drivers.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“It was true that she looked too ordinary, too vulnerable to be a psychopathic killer, but then, from what I’d read, most psychopathic killers are just like that. It’s why they’re so hard to catch.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“And she had just signed a major deal with Walt Disney, including a strict morality clause that, almost certainly, prohibited the act of murder.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill

“It would be nice to think that I could get to the end of a third outing with some of my reputation still intact.”
― Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill