Moonflower Murders Quotes

“Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“There were books everywhere, hundreds of them on shelves that had been designed to fit into every nook and cranny, and it goes without saying that anyone who collects books can’t be all bad.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“What makes them dangerous is their belief that they should not be stopped, that they are justified in what they do. I will not speak of my experiences in the war, but I will say this. The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“It felt strange. I was about to read one murder mystery while sitting inside another.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“If you stand too close to the sun you can't complain when all you become as a silhouette.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“On the one hand, they’re monstrous egotists. Self-confidence, self-examination, self-hatred even … but it’s all about self. All those hours on their own! And yet at the same time, they’re genuinely altruistic. All they want to do is please other people. I’ve often thought it must demand a sort of deficiency to be a writer.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“From Pünd's experience, people who were so insistent on the truth were very rarely telling it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“We were like two actors in a play, reciting lines that had been written by someone else. He gave me a peck on the cheek and then — exit stage right — I went upstairs on my own.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“She's the only line of continuity running through the haphazardness of my life, even though there are times when I'm not even sure if I really know her.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“He had known then, not that he had ever doubted it, that even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Most of the jars on my spice rack had that sticky, dusty quality that comes from never being opened and you’d have had to root around in the fridge to find a vegetable that wasn’t limp, bruised or withered – or all three.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Girls might be girls, but not, I thought, borderline psychotics.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Mary Westmacott, which was, in fact, Christie’s nom de plume.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Atticus Pünd had often said that there were no coincidences when you were investigating a crime. ‘Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Literary festivals all over the country turn writers into performers and open doors into their private lives that, I often think, would be better left closed. In my view, it’s more satisfying to learn about authors from the work they produce rather than the other way round.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Michael J. Bealey was a busy man. His PA had rung to say that drinks at Soho House would no longer work but could I meet him for lunch at twelve thirty? Lunch turned out to be a sandwich and a cup of coffee at a Prêt just around the corner from his flat on the King’s Road, but that was fine by me. I wasn’t sure if Michael would have had enough conversation for a two-course meal. He had always been a man of few words, despite having published millions of them. The “J.” on his business card was important to him, by the way. It was said that he had known both Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick and had adapted his own name as a sort of tribute to them both. He was well known as an expert on their work and had written long articles that had been published in Constellations (which he had also edited at Gollancz) and Strange Horizons. He was already there when I arrived, scrolling through a typescript on his iPad.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“There was always a faint possibility that a supplier might actually arrive on time but it would never be with the goods that we had actually ordered.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“His chest was heaving. He was on the edge of tears. "You've never tried to see things my way. You don't have any understanding what it's like being me.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Every writer is different,’ I said. ‘But they don’t steal, exactly. They absorb. It’s such a strange profession, really, living in a sort of twilight between the world they belong to and the world they create. On the one hand, they’re monstrous egotists. Self-confidence, self-examination, self-hatred even . . . but it’s all about self. All those hours on their own! And yet at the same time, they’re genuinely altruistic. All they want to do is please other people. I’ve often thought it must demand a sort of deficiency to be a writer. There’s something missing in your life so you fill it with words.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“I've been faking it all my life. I'm good at it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“I felt completely out of my depth. There were so many questions I wanted to ask him but at the same time I was afraid of offending him.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“He could be a complete bastard when he wanted to be — which was most of the time, now I come to think about it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“It's amazing how quickly it can all fall apart.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“All I had, really, were vague feelings.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“When he thought about her, he no longer wanted to live.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders