After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)
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Read between April 28 - May 3, 2022
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those contemporary readers who determinedly misunderstand the word plausible and use it as if it were synonymous with commonplace, everyday, or has happened to several people I know personally.
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sometimes the best way to illuminate an important truth about reality is to frame it in a startlingly unusual way,
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“The value of money is always relative,” said Mr. Entwhistle. “It is the need that counts.”
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inquisitiveness can drape itself in a mantle of rectitude.
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he had that queer morbid streak which discounts and invites, almost craves, punishment.
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She’s a lovely, I agree. But not, or so I’ve found, conspicuous for brains.”
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To be always right must be sometimes monotonous.”