“What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Agatha Christie, quote from The Pale Horse
                                
                                
                                    “I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Agatha Christie, quote from The Pale Horse
                                
                                
                                    “She looked at nobody, but just before she went out, she raised her eyes and took a speedy glance at me. There was something in that looks that startled me - though it was difficult to describe why. There was malice in it, and a curious intimate knowledge. I felt that, without effort, and almost without curiosity, she had known exactly what thoughts were in my mind.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Agatha Christie, quote from The Pale Horse
                                
                                
                                    “Life is always dangerous—never forget that. In the end, perhaps, not only great natural forces, but the work of our own hands may destroy it.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Agatha Christie, quote from The Pale Horse
                                
                                
                                    “Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Agatha Christie, quote from The Pale Horse
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he’ll always be less than a man.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Agatha Christie, quote from The Pale Horse
                                
                                
                                “Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, when the darkness stole away any signs of hope.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from The Samurai's Garden
                                
                            
                                “The same wind that uproots trees
makes the grass shine.
The lordly wind loves the weakness
and the lowness of grasses.
Never brag of being strong.
The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.
It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.
It leaves the leaves alone.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Rumi, quote from The Essential Rumi
                                
                            
                                “I tell you, just when you think you know someone, she shows up looking pretty and carrying a guitar.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Emmy Laybourne, quote from Monument 14
                                
                            
                                “To Beatrice- 
My love flew like a butterfly
Until death swooped down like a bat
As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:
'That's the end of that”
                                
                                
                                    ― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Miserable Mill
                                
                            
                                “A Stranger
There is a love I reminisce,
Like a seed
I've never sown.
Or lips that im yet to kiss,
and eyes
not met my own.
Hands that wrap around my wrists,
and arms
that feel like home.
I wonder how it is I miss,
these things
I've never known.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Lang Leav, quote from Love & Misadventure
                                
                            
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