“Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else."
"Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“Anybody who can belive six impossible things before breakfast wins hands down in this game.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“My boy, I know what I’m talking about. Mind you, I’m not saying marriage doesn’t come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can’t call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It’s all discipline.” Luke”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
“L'altura di Ashe Ridge incombeva, opprimente e minacciosa, e un'improvvisa folata di vento scosse con violenza i rami degli alberi. In quell'istante, da dietro l'angolo della casa, comparve una ragazza.
Coi capelli neri scompigliati dal vento, ricordò a Luke il quadro di Nevinson intitolato "La strega". Quel viso pallido, delicato, quei capelli così lunghi che parevano arrivare fino alle stelle... se la immaginò a cavallo di un manico di scopa che voleva verso la luna.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder Is Easy
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“Good things make choosing difficult. Bad things leave no choice. [p. 62]”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, quote from The Almond Tree
“My face is in his neck and I think if I was going to cry, this would be the perfect place to do it”
― Nyrae Dawn, quote from Charade
“I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world.”
― Maria Semple, quote from Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“As for Women that do not think their own Safety worth their Thought, that impatient of their present State, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into Matrimony, as a Horse rushes into the Battle, I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a Sort of Ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd People...”
― Daniel Defoe, quote from Moll Flanders
“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point in space, the poet sees everything that happens in one point in time. Lost in thought, he taps his knee with his wandlike pencil, and at the same instant a car (New York license plate) passes along the road, a child bangs the screen door of a neighbouring porch, an old man yawns in a misty Turkestan orchard, a granule of cinder-grey sand is rolled by the wind on Venus, a Docteur Jacques Hirsch in Grenoble puts on his reading glasses, and trillions of other such trifles occur - all forming an instantaneous and transparent organism of events, of which the poet (sitting in a lawn chair in Ithaca, N.Y.) is the nucleus.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Speak, Memory
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