Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)

by Agatha Christie

Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.”

“A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty,”

Poirot. “I lead a very moral life. That is not quite the same thing as having moral ideas.”

One must have the courage to face reality. Without that courage, life is meaningless. The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality.

“It is to show you that it is the eyes of the mind with which one really sees….”