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.

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.

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.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

What is beautiful?Everything that has been loved by someone, That is beautiful.

So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

I do know this: other countries are eating our lunch.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.