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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc7e032 | Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city... | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 52d74c1 | The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping stones, and, in the event of failing inspiration, for falling into. Several of the trees appeared to have been specifically designed for climbing, and one huge, white old birch overhanging the stream promised the exhilarating combination of climbing a tree and falling into the water, all at one time. | humour mischief | David Eddings | |
| 24869b6 | What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9809aa6 | I've heard that you're the cat's whiskers, M. Poirot." "Comment? The cat's whiskers? I do not understand." "Well that you're It." "Madame, I may or may not have brains - as a matter of fact I have - why pretend?" | Agatha Christie | ||
| 55b7e8d | But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error." "What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.!" | Agatha Christie | ||
| a770af4 | Vi pripadate Ligi naroda? -Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, rece Poirot dramaticno. | hercule-poirot ubojstvo-u-orijent-expressu | Agatha Christie | |
| 628e327 | If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0423959 | Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me? | honor miss-marple nobility | Agatha Christie | |
| 740cc4b | A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 87e1e85 | He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 129e785 | There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -" "I am desolated!" "That's a good boy!" | haha humour obedience | Agatha Christie | |
| a6c08a3 | Iris was too languid and too used to Mrs. Drake's discursive style to inquire why the mention of Dr. Gaskell should have reminded her aunt of the local grocer, though had she done so, she would have received the immediate response: "Because the grocer's name is Cranford, my dear." Aunt Lucilla's reasoning was always crystal clear to herself." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7d45d70 | Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 608e9cf | In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 576bf0c | Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.' Joanna was half serious, half laughing. It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery. 'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.' A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...' She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new disco.. | love men new-discovery | Agatha Christie | |
| 9446c20 | Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f2af403 | Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 20303a6 | Poirot's eyes opened. "That is great ferocity," he said. "It is a woman," said the chef de train, speaking for the first time. "Depend upon it, it was a woman. Only a woman would stab like that." Dr. Constantine screwed up his face thoughtfully. "She must have been a very strong woman," he said. "It is not my desire to speak technically-that is only confusing; but I can assure you that two of the blows were delivered with such forces as to .. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 15e7b73 | I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed." | Agatha Christie | ||
| b645ddf | I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable. | Agatha Christie | ||
| b602744 | You think he is marrying her for money?' 'Yes, I do. Don't you think so?' 'I should say quite certainly,' said Miss Marple. 'Like young Ellis who married Marion Bates, the rich ironmonger's daughter. She was a very plain girl and absolutely besotted about him. However, it turned out quite well. People like young Ellis and this Gerald Wright are only really disagreeable when they've married a poor girl for love. They are so annoyed with them.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| ffff60f | Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind." | cambridge embarassment englishman humor humour sympathy utensil | Agatha Christie | |
| fed2247 | Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say 'le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.' Because I am convinced that le bon Dieu created Hercule Poirot for the express purpose of interfering. It is my metier. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1a81aab | There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best. | Agatha Christie | ||
| cf64cfd | There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 13f3550 | I love autumn. It's so much richer than spring. | Agatha Christie | ||
| b391eae | Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6c13653 | Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago... | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3e2ed98 | I don't know why dogs always go for postmen, I'm sure," continued our guide. "It's a matter of reasoning," said Poirot. "The dog, he argues from reason. He is intelligent; he makes his deductions according to his point of view. There are people who may enter a house and there are people who may not - that a dog soon learns. Eh bien, who is the person who most persistently tries to gain admission, rattling on the door twice or three times a .. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 544989d | There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes. | funeral harm truth | Agatha Christie | |
| 2807fcc | Because, you see, if the man were an invention--a fabrication--how much easier to make him disappear! | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6f42dca | From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all. | preparation thriller thriller-novels | Agatha Christie | |
| 671adc7 | Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone? | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1b717cd | Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 3a053d8 | Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| bacf8a4 | l'mkn lmrb`@ tshml w tHll, l'mkn ldy'ry@ tqtrH lstmrry@. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 12386c7 | The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their present. It grants them a glimpse, however secret or distant, into the minds of other human beings, and allows them a certain knowledge of their own condition through the stories stored here for their perusal. Above all, it tells readers that .. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 8974ec8 | yZhr hdh fy 'n nfs lSfH@ mn lktb tdf` 'Hd lqr l~ ltshkk fy `qlh wlqry' lakhr llDHk | Alberto Manguel | ||
| cc8c34c | Insan mutlulugun hep sonradan farkina varir. Ah, o zaman ne mutluymusum, keske daha dikkatli olsaymisim. | Arnon Grunberg | ||
| 6344d97 | You don't like my dress?" The vines of Reed's couture streched toward the tutor, the rose's petal-mouths chomping. It isn't that, Your Imperial Viciousness. The earthlings will not understand you. Not understanding you, they will be frightened and send their petty authorities to apprehend you." Ha!" Of course they'll fail. That isn't the point. But you'll have to wast engery dealing with them instead of concentrating on your niece's destruc.. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 403b376 | It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 7cf8da0 | You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage. | Ron Rash | ||
| 229fe92 | I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83) | decisions survival | Ron Rash | |
| 432fbf3 | Disclaimer: While Pastafarianism is the only religion based on empirical evidence, it should also be noted that this is a faith-based book. Attentive readers will note numerous holes and contradictions throughout the text; they will even find blatant lies and exaggerations. These have been placed there to test the reader's faith. | Bobby Henderson |