Towards Zero Quotes

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”

He paused.

“It's Zero Hour now.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“It may be just by being somewhere—not doing anything—just by being at a certain place at a certain time—oh, I can’t say what I mean, but you might just—just walk along a street some day and just by doing that accomplish something terribly important—perhaps even without knowing what it was.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“They were silent with the comfortable silence of two people who know each other very well indeed.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Always looks as though she's seeing things other people don't see. But she's got a lot of character. She makes herself felt, as you might say.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Ah,” she said, “I’ve enjoyed myself! There’s nothing like exchanging gossip and remembering old scandals.” “A little malice,” agreed Mr. Treves, “adds a certain savour to life.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“He was engaged at the moment in a careful stocktaking of his thoughts and emotions.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Oh, I leave it to your imagination, Mr. Latimer. I would not presume to give you advice, you know. The advice of such elderly fogeys as myself is invariably treated with scorn. Rightly so, perhaps, who knows? But we old buffers like to think that experience has taught us something. We have noticed a good deal, you know, in the course of a lifetime.” A”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“She was like a child who, by a tightly clenched hand over a treasure, calls attention to what it wants to hide.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“what’s true sooner or later—because in the end it’s easier than telling lies. And so they make some little slip they don’t think matters—and that’s when you get them.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“But that was beauty, of course—some vague, fancied picture of a woman flying through the night with white draperies streaming out behind her… Something like the figurehead of a ship—only not so solid… not nearly so solid…”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Yes, yes, I know that. But why did you fall in love with him? What attracted you to him so much?"

She crinkled her eyes as though trying to see through the eyes of a girl now dead.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“It has been my experience," said Mr. Treves, "that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on -their lips, but not apparent in their actions.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“His manner, as always, was incurious - almost lazy. He asked the question, it seemed, more from politeness than because he had any desire for the information. It was a manner particularly soothing to Mary Aldin. She wanted badly to talk to someone - but she much preferred to talk to someone who was not too much interested.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“He did not speak, for Thomas Royde was a man singularly economical of words. His friends had learned to gauge his reactions correctly from the quality of his silences.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“And then, after three years or whatever it is, you’ll ask dear sweet Audrey to marry you all over again?”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“They think you treated her badly.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“mind controlling it—when it bows obedient to that alien something that controls its actions. There are other times when a mind is conscious of owning and controlling a body and accomplishing its purpose by using that body.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“My dear girl, what use am I to anybody?”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Completely down and out, with his health permanently affected, with a wife who had left him for another man. Without a job, without affection, without money, health or hope, surely to end it all was the only possible solution?”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“It has been my experience that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned . Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions. - Mr. Treves”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“She’s only thirty-two. Got her life in front of her.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“You won’t get me to commit myself on that point,’ said Lazenby.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“A little malice,’ agreed Mr Treves, ‘adds a certain savour to life.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“like a good detective story,’ he said. ‘But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes—with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“A charming creature and a lady—but then that was the kind of woman who invariably did get left, in Mr. Treves’ experience.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“I simply don’t believe it,” said Lady Tressilian. “Nevile, like all men, believes what he wants to believe!”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero