"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

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

Death is the same for the one who dies.

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

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.