Moonflower Murders Quotes

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“That was a long time, an abyss into which Cecily had fallen.”
― 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. We weren’t married, by the way. Andreas had proposed to me, doing the whole diamond-ring-down-on-one-knee thing, but we had both been too busy to follow through, and anyway, my Greek wasn’t good enough yet to understand the service.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“wasn’t that she would judge me. It was more that I would feel myself being judged.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“you choose to stand too close to the sun you can’t complain when you become nothing more than a silhouette.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Pünd had never seen murder as a game, not even as a puzzle to be solved. His work was an examination of humanity at its darkest and most desperate. You could not solve crime unless you understood its genesis.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“I do not know what has brought you here or how you have been driven to an action as extreme as the one you are now contemplating,’ he said. ‘You must be very unhappy. Of that I am sure. Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work? That is the way of things, Miss Mitchell, and I am the living proof of it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Atticus Pünd had no time for religion. During the war, he had been persecuted not for what he believed but for what he was, a Greek Jew whose great-grandfather had emigrated to Germany sixty years before he was born, unaware that although he was bettering his own life, his decision would lead to the extinction of almost his entire bloodline.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“was finished the moment I came to this country,’ he said quietly. ‘I was twelve years old and I didn’t want to be here. Nobody wanted me to be here. I was trash – Romanian trash – and the first chance they got, they threw me in this place and forgot about me. You think anyone will read this letter? You think anyone will care? No! I could die in here.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“executive,”
― 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.

[Atticus Pūnd]”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“What exactly was the point? And more pertinently, what the hell was I doing here? How had I allowed my life to come to this?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“That was when I would be at my lowest, falling asleep with the knowledge that the moment I opened my eyes the whole thing would start all over again.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“But the worst of it was the sense of helplessness — that events had taken over and I was being steered by them rather than the other way round.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“The two of them were used to speaking quietly. They knew their place in the house and it was their first duty never to be noticed unless they were needed, never to draw attention to themselves.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“I wondered now if I had behaved badly and, worse still, if I had broken something that was precious to me.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“He sounded almost too genuine to be genuine.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“Well, you know, it's been one of those years." It always was, where Michael was concerned. He'd turned gloom into an art form.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“. . . not that anything very much ever happened.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“It often seemed to Eric that he was trapped and that he had been from the moment of his birth.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“He was forty-three years old now and he was beginning to see that this was his life. These were the cards that he had been dealt.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what?

He had no idea.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders