Anthony Horowitz Quotes

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

I regret losing my innocence so early.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

All children, except one, grow up.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.