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  • #1
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #2
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #3
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #4
    Agatha Christie
    “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

    -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
    Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories

  • #5
    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

  • #6
    Agatha Christie
    “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #7
    Agatha Christie
    “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #8
    Agatha Christie
    “Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
    Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

  • #9
    Agatha Christie
    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #10
    Agatha Christie
    “The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
    Agatha Christie

  • #11
    Agatha Christie
    “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #12
    Agatha Christie
    “As a matter of fact it wouldn’t be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I’d trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia

  • #13
    Agatha Christie
    “It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

  • #14
    Agatha Christie
    “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #15
    Agatha Christie
    “Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
    Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

  • #16
    Agatha Christie
    “But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #17
    Agatha Christie
    “One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #18
    Agatha Christie
    “The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
    Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

  • #20
    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    Michael Palin

  • #21
    Jo Walton
    “Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
    Jo Walton, Among Others

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #23
    “I hate the word famous because it has no substance.”
    Harry Styles

  • #24
    “Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.”
    Harry Styles

  • #25
    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    Russell Banks, Continental Drift

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    Liu Cixin
    “Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!”
    Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

  • #28
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #29
    Lyn Key
    I’m hungry as a church mouse, Hope. Do you have anything to eat?

    Hope looked down at His Whiskery Lordship swishing his black tail back and forth at her. He’d tucked a blue paper napkin into his collar. “When did you wake up?” she asked.”
    Lyn Key, Nozy Cat 2: A Hope Jones Cozy Mystery

  • #30
    Jay Kristoff
    “Too many books. Too few centuries.”
    Jay Kristoff, Nevernight



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