“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …”
“Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
“To see ourselves as others see us!”
“It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.”
“I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong."
Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?"
"No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me."
"I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous."
"I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.”
“Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.”
“He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:”
“He tastes like salt and air, as if the ocean wrapped around him when he was small and never let go.”
“О, мои грехи... Я всегда сорила деньгами без удержу, как сумасшедшая,”
“Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.”
“Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really.”
“Condoms instantly shot to the number-one position on my mental list of must-find survival supplies, far ahead of food, water, and a way across the Mississippi River.”
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