You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.”Are you saying I have no choice?”We all have choices. But our...

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

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.

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

Do you realise how much trouble you’re in?””Perhaps I’ll have some Weetabix after all.

Sometimes it’s the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

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.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

I don’t know what I’d do without you. There’s no one else to look after me. And it’s not just that. I sometimes think you’re the only person who really knows me. I only feel...

No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire...

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?

I really don’t know what to think, Mr Holmes,’ Lestrade muttered. ‘Well, that’s nothing new.

Nice day for a funeral.

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.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn’t meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you’re still...

I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It...

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

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 must have been going very fast.””I was, until I hit the fence.

The world was healing itself.

It was quite elementary,’ returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape,” she explained. “She was crushed.””I’d have been disappointed too.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn’t quite possible.

They didn’t just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,’ Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer…””Just...

You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

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.

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn’t very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It...

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is...

You’re never too young to die.

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.

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It’s all down to choice.

You’ve already said you were going to kill me,” Alex said, “but I didn’t think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?””I think it was Alan Blunt.