“Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“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 themselves for doing it that they take it out of the girl. But if they marry a rich girl they continue to respect her.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn’t.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Natural affection is one thing,” said Miss Ramsbottom, “and I hope I’ve got as much of it as anyone. But I won’t stand for wickedness. Wickedness has to be destroyed.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I’ve told you. I’m a malicious creature.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Yew berries?” “Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“He doesn’t seem to have been one of those food faddists who’ll eat any mortal thing so long as it isn’t cooked. My sister’s husband’s like that. Raw carrots, raw peas, raw turnips. But”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“The typists might have been so many blackbeetles.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“It’s a classic, isn’t it, sir?” said Hay. “Third Programme stuff. I don’t listen to the Third Programme.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“I hate saying goodbye to you.”
I nuzzled my face into his chest and then tipped my head back and looked up at him. “Just promise me once we get out of here, we’ll never say goodbye again.”
“I promise.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from Becoming Calder
“We need a very potent hybrid attack, an abomination even Ptolemy would approve of.’
‘Why are you looking at me?’ I asked. ‘I’m not abominable.’
‘You are a son of Poseidon,’ the goddess noted. ‘That would be a most unexpected combination.’
‘Combination? What –’
‘Oh, no, no, no.’ Sadie raised her hands. She looked horrified, and anything that could scare that girl I did not want to know about.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Crown of Ptolemy
“He considered what he should do with the rest of his life. And he considered whether you ever found out if you had made the right decisions while you were still alive. It”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Frelseren
“when i felt bobby staring at me, i looked up. our eyes met, and he held my gaze; he held my gaze like he was holding me, and i held him as though holding him. then he looked away, he was gone and it was over - a one-minute stand. ”
― Melissa Bank, quote from The Wonder Spot
“Today the danger of the pro-life position, which I vigorously support, is that it can be frighteningly selective. The rights of the unborn and the dignity of the age-worn are pieces of the same pro-life fabric. We weep at the unjustified destruction of the unborn. Did we also weep when the evening news reported from Arkansas that a black family had been shotgunned out of a white neighborhood.
When we laud life and blast abortionists, our credibility as Christians is questionable. On one hand we proclaim the love and anguish, the pain and joy that goes into fashioning a single child. We proclaim how precious each life is to God and should be to us. On the other hand, when it is the enemy that shrieks to heaven with his flesh in flames, we do not weep, we are not shamed; we call for more”
― Brennan Manning, quote from The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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