Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)

by Agatha Christie

“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, ‘I will feel so much and no more.’ Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable!”

Poirot stirred his tea cautiously and took one heroic sip.