“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered.
Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell.
"My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!"
"There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot.
"Eh?"
"It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“I was such a foolish girl - girls are foolish, Mr. Satterthwaite. They are so sure of themselves, so convinced they know best. People write and talk a lot of a ‘woman’s instinct.’ I don’t believe, Mr.Satterthwaite, that there is any such thing. There doesn’t seem to be anything that warns girls against a certain type of man. Nothing in themselves, I mean. Their parents warn them, but that’s no good - one doesn’t believe. It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“The great merit of being a doctor,” said Sir Bartholomew, “is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“Een man die zichzelf voortdurend dramatiseert, wordt wel eens verkeerd beoordeeld,' stelde Satterthwaite vast. 'Je neemt de dingen die echt in hem zijn ook niet meer au sérieux.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“Een van de voordelen als je dokter bent, is dat je je eigen raad niet hoeft op te volgen,' zei Sir Bartholomew.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“This novel was the author’s gift to her brother-in-law, who had”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“There's a pause in the conversation when I really want to ask Matt what he's thinking despite it being probably the most cliché thing to ask a guy. When Matt still doesn't take his eyes off the names, I open my mouth to ask if he has any questions. He beats me to it.
"Where's Megan?" he asks.
"Oh, she was Marcus Pitts then," I say. "She was born a boy. He dad took the accident as an opportunity to leave them, mostly because he couldn't take the transgender thing. After they moved, Megan's mom let her wear whatever- be whoever- she wanted. She dressed in girl clothes from then on out."
"But she was only, what, like five?"
"I guess when you know, you know," I say with a shrug.”
― Cat Patrick, quote from Revived
“The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.”
― John Verdon, quote from Think of a Number
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.”
― Luke Rhinehart, quote from The Dice Man
“The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.”
― R. Scott Bakker, quote from The Darkness That Comes Before
“For people like us, little people who went scurrying through the world like mice in a cartoon, sometimes laughing at the assholes was the only revenge you could ever get.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
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