He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

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.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

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.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

You're never too young to die.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

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.

Children believe they are immortal, death is an empty word like the name of a country they’ve never been to on a time-faded map. I wasn’t a child anymore.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.