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"She had a deep bass voice and visited the poor indefatigably, however hard they tried to avoid her ministrations."

"Maybe I had walked all the way to Scotland [from London]."
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2016 bucket list: Find a time machine, go to 1950s London, and spend at least 2 hours at a specific Charing Cross Road bookstore.

One of those days again... when I'm forcing myself to finish a book, even though I sooo want to read something else.

"Sabine and Frauke from the Mother-Society have given you an 11-year-old girl.. as a present?"
"No, just loaned", said Mimi. "She's called Coralie."

"Promise me, that you won't tell him anything!"
"He will notice it eventually," I said. "Even if [the twins] are monozygotic, and will always cry and sleep one at a time, he'll still notice someday that there's two of them. If nothing else, when he sees the vast amounts of nappies that you'll use up. "

"Nothing about a crime is ever ordinary. The shot was not an ordinary kind of shot. The sneeze was not a usual kind of sneeze. It was, I presume, a special murderer's sneeze."

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"I expect someone overheard something, though, don't you?" said Miss Marple. "I mean, somebody always does."

"There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands." =)))))))))))

"And that's how a man ended up lying on my bed, as Lorenz drove by in the Volvo, to pick up the children.(...) The sight was probably a bit misleading: Wildwill2 lying on his back, while I sat on the bedside with dollar sign in my eyes."


(... and no, I shouldn't quit my day job to become a German-English translator :P)