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1 " I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things. "
― Agatha Christie , Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
2 " It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions. "
3 " It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy. "
4 " Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt. "
5 " When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”He paused.“It's Zero Hour now. "
6 " They were silent with the comfortable silence of two people who know each other very well indeed. "
7 " Oh, I leave it to your imagination, Mr. Latimer. I would not presume to give you advice, you know. The advice of such elderly fogeys as myself is invariably treated with scorn. Rightly so, perhaps, who knows? But we old buffers like to think that experience has taught us something. We have noticed a good deal, you know, in the course of a lifetime.” A "
8 " That sombre, thoughtful gaze of his did not leave her face. She did not find it embarrassing. It was too free from self-consciousness for that - a genuine, thoughtful interest. "
9 " It has been my experience," said Mr. Treves, "that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on -their lips, but not apparent in their actions. "
10 " Yes, yes, I know that. But why did you fall in love with him? What attracted you to him so much?"She crinkled her eyes as though trying to see through the eyes of a girl now dead. "
11 " There's a general belief that athletes aren't overburdened by brains (not at all true by the way), but I can't believe Nevile Strange is a complete moron. "
12 " He was engaged at the moment in a careful stocktaking of his thoughts and emotions. "
13 " But that was beauty, of course—some vague, fancied picture of a woman flying through the night with white draperies streaming out behind her… Something like the figurehead of a ship—only not so solid… not nearly so solid… "
14 " Spider’s Web * The Unexpected "
15 " what’s true sooner or later—because in the end it’s easier than telling lies. And so they make some little slip they don’t think matters—and that’s when you get them. "
16 " Ah, Barrett... Bu dünyadan ne kadar çabuk kurtulursam, o kadar iyi olur. Artık ben olayları da, insanları da anlayamıyorum. "
17 " Slike ting blir sendt oss for å prøve oss. I hvert fall tror jeg det. Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ellers blir sendt oss. "
18 " Always looks as though she's seeing things other people don't see. But she's got a lot of character. She makes herself felt, as you might say. "
19 " He did not speak, for Thomas Royde was a man singularly economical of words. His friends had learned to gauge his reactions correctly from the quality of his silences. "
20 " His manner, as always, was incurious - almost lazy. He asked the question, it seemed, more from politeness than because he had any desire for the information. It was a manner particularly soothing to Mary Aldin. She wanted badly to talk to someone - but she much preferred to talk to someone who was not too much interested. "
