Literary Quotes

Literary Quotes and Lovely Things

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. . . the memory . . . was something to be ruthlessly thrust down and not thought about more than could be helped.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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'The trouble with you young fellows is that you're so cocksure nothing can exist outside your own philosophy that you get the wind up when something occurs to jolt you out of that opinion.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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His face was eloquent of the disgusted contempt which he felt.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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His lies had been believed. Now that he spoke the truth, belief was withheld. The irony of it!

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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Always kind, always affectionate, and with a merry tongue which never failed to please her.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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. . . 'you don't believe in the past. I do. I believe in the atmosphere of this house.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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'You, I think, believe in ghosts and spirits. I don't, and when I tell you that there is something very wrong in that house . . . I mean that there is something tangibly wrong—it's not just an echo of the past.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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' . . . you will come away with me. I will look after you—keep you safe always.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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Whatever he had expected, it was not this.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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'If she will come with me, I shall take her away—far away . . . I shall guard her, care for her, shelter her with my love.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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For the first time Dermot felt an outsider in the company of his friend. Between these two was a secret that even an old friend might not share.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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'And all from suppressing oneself . . . I quite see that one should be very careful always to—to express one's personality. The dangers of the other are frightful.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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“The most likable person you know just might be a sociopath.”

— Sarah Manguso, from 300 Arguments

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'But the man . . . or woman who is to all appearance perfectly normal, may be in reality a poignant source of danger to the community.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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He'd cared for women before. . . . 'But not like this!' said something. 'Not like this.'

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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Claire . . . the very thought of her name, uttered silently, hurt him.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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He'd get over it someday, he supposed. A thing couldn't go on hurting like this forever.

Agatha Christie, from The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories