“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“You do think you know about everything," said her husband.
I do," said Tuppence.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“They are never really dead, these super criminals”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“As the visitor left the office, Tuppence grabbed the violin and putting it in the cupboard turned the key in the lock.
"If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled Cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“It is a great advantage to be intelligent and not to look it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?"
"Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“لا حد يشعر بقيمة النعمة إلا عندما يفقدها، فنحن لا نشعر بقيمة التنفس إلا إذا أصابنا البرد”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“Twenty minutes’ work after breakfast every morning keeps the flag going to perfection. You have nothing to complain of, have you?” “Your”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Partners in Crime
“It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.”
― Amelia Gray, quote from Threats
“However you identify, be it lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, asexual, curious, or carrot, we all have something in common—we are a minority, and we have made brave steps to identify as such; we have refused to hide and made a declaration of who we are.”
― James Dawson, quote from This Book is Gay
“He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we die to our egos, our pride, our need to be right, our self-sufficiency, our rebellion, and our stubborn insistence that we deserve to get our way. When we cling with white knuckles to our sins and our hostility, we’re like a tree that won’t let its leaves go. There can’t be a spring if we’re still stuck in the fall. Lose your life and find it, he says. That’s how the world works.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“I am so tired of waking to the blank canvass of morning and realizing it won't be painted with you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
“I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from Homeland and Other Stories
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