Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

When are you at your most defenseless?

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Nice day for a funeral.