“What alchemy there was in human beings.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“He did not know- he simply did not know.
But he felt he ought to know.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration…just letting them drift gently past.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God’s mark upon my brow?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood;
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood
And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death".”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“What made Lady Angkatell dangerous, he thought, was the fact that those intuitive, wild guesses of hers might be often right. With a careless (seemingly careless?) word she built up a picture - and if parts of the picture was right, wouldn't you, in spite of yourself, believe in the other half of the picture?...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“love.” Poirot put his hand gently on her shoulder. He said: “But you are one of those who can live with a sword in their hearts—who can go on and smile—” Henrietta looked up at him. Her lips twisted into a bitter smile. “That’s a little melodramatic,”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God’s mark upon my brow?’ Did”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.”
― Janice Galloway, quote from The Trick is to Keep Breathing
“I used to be endlessly troubled by meat-eating people who were uneasy with hunters and hunting. ... How can someone suggest that paying for the slaughter of animals is more justifiable than taking the responsibility for one's food into one's own hands? ... Civilization is a mechanism that allows us to avoid the necessary but ugly aspects of life; most of us do not euthanize our own pets, we don't unplug the life support on our own ailing grandparents, we don't repair our own cars, and we don't process our own raw sewage. Instead, the delegations of our less-pleasant responsibilities is so widespread that taking these things on is almost like trying to swim upriver. It's easier not to do them, and those who insist on doing so are bound to look a little odd.”
― quote from American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
“The very measure of God's power in a believer's life is dependent on how much of his life is ordered by the Holy Ghost.”
― quote from The Walk of the Spirit - The Walk of Power : The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues
“It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
“Wait. I will say something. This is too important. And if you don’t listen to anything else I tell you, I hope you’ll listen now. No matter what you might hear about all these tragic figures, and the whole romantic image of the suffering artist, suicide is not cool. It’s not heroic. It’s not romantic. It’s like running away. Abandoning your family. And leaving someone else to clean up your mess. Only, it’s even worse, because once you go there, you can’t come back. And that would really suck.”
― David Lubar, quote from Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
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