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“You're never too young to die.”
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“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 a child.”
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“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”
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“I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalis, I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.'
'It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing.”
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'It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing.”
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“He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.”
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“In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.”
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“Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground.”
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“When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news”
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“We have four blocks here. Block A, where we are now, is administration and recreation. Block B is software development. Block C is research and storage. Block D is where the main Stormbreaker assembly line is found.” “Where’s breakfast?” Alex asked.”
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“the usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.”
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“TOYS AREN’T US”
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“said. “Who are you? Was my uncle working for you? Did you kill him?” “So many questions,” Crawley muttered. “But I’m afraid we’re not authorized to give you the answers.” The second man lifted his hand and Alex saw that he was holding a gun. He stood up behind the desk, holding the file as if to protect himself. “No…” he began. The man”
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“One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in”
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“WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
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“himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath”
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“The Portuguese man-of-war,” Sayle continued. He had a heavy accent brought with him from the Cairo marketplace. “It’s beautiful, don’t you think?” “I wouldn’t keep one as a pet,” Alex said. “I”
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“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news. Alex Rider was woken by the first chime. His eyes flickered open, but for a moment he stayed completely still in his bed, lying on his back with his head resting on the pillow.”
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“And then something hit the BMW with such force that Alex cried out, his whole body caught in a massive shock wave that tore him away from the steering-wheel and threw him helplessly into the back. At the same time, the roof buckled and three huge metal fingers tore through the skin of the car like a fork through an eggshell, trailing dust and sunlight. One of the fingers grazed the side of his head – any closer and it would have cracked his skull. Alex yelled as blood trickled over his eye. He tried to move, then was jerked back a second time as the car was yanked off the ground and tilted high up in the air. He couldn’t see. He couldn’t move. But his stomach lurched as the car swung in an arc, the metal grinding and the light spinning. It had been picked up by the crane. It was going to be put inside the crusher. With him inside. He tried to raise himself up, to”
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“Books grow old faster when they're not being read”
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“Victorian,”
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“pointing the way ahead and throwing pure, white light on to his immediate surroundings. Alex was at the start of a long tunnel,”
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“bul-lets”
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“WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news. Alex”
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“Here…”
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“seconds he was forty, fifty yards”
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“One car behind him. Two”
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“Stryker.”
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“Blunt. I am the chief executive of the Special Operations Division of MI6. And your uncle was, for want of a better word, a spy.”
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“you’d”
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“Alex took a sip. It wasn’t Coke. It wasn’t even Pepsi. He recognized the over-sweet, slightly cloying taste of supermarket cola and wished he’d asked for water.”
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