agatha christie : and then there were none ... sentence starters
"Success had its penalties."
"And then there were none."
"Death was for other people."
"The innocent must not suffer."
"Be sure thy sin will find thee out."
"In the midst of life, we are in death."
"Fear, what a strange thing fear was…"
"One takes things for granted too much."
"It's true, isn't it? We're all waiting for the end."
"A mad man has all the advantages on his side."
"You're very young. You haven't got to that, yet."
"This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face."
"One of us in this very room is, in fact, the murderer."
"Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you."
"As long as we live, we are one step away from death."
"You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved."
"It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books."
"That's peace, real peace. To come to the end, not to have to go on…"
"There are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators."
"From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us."
"There's no one in the room. There can't be. You're imagining things, my girl."
"Don't you feel, all the time, that there's someone? Someone watching and waiting?"
"When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment."
"There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no atmosphere about it."
"Don't stare like that! As though you thought I was mad. It's sane enough what I'm asking."
"I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea…"
"But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition."
"Ought to ferret out the mystery before we go. Whole thing's like a detective story. Positively thrilling."
"I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been."
"Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman... probably a dangerous, homicidal lunatic."
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."