The Woman on the Orient Express Quotes

“For the train, like life, must go on until it reaches its destination. You might not always like what you see out of the window, but if you pull down the blind, you will miss the beauty as well as the ugliness.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Could she really do it? Could she really go all that way by herself? Yes, she whispered, of course you can do it: you’re thirty-eight years old and you’re not going to the moon, just to Baghdad. The word sounded the way a shiver felt. At the dinner party in London it had been a shiver of excitement, but now it held a frisson of dread.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“If there is a God, she thought, music must be his language.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“The trouble with still, peaceful places was that they allowed all manner of uninvited thoughts to push their way inside your head.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“In October 2015 we were lucky enough to have our wedding at Agatha Christie’s beautiful home, Greenway, on the banks of the River Dart in Devon. If there could be such a thing as a patron saint of second marriages, I can think of no better candidate than Agatha Christie.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“When everything goes against you and you get to a point when it seems you can’t hang on a minute longer, never, never give up—for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“It’s not easy to believe in anything when your whole world turns upside down. The main thing is to keep believing in yourself.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“All of you, every one of you, will pass through a time when you will face despair.’” That much was faithful to the original. “She told us that it was impossible to love without suffering—but if we never loved, we would never know the true meaning of life. Then she said, ‘When everything goes against you and you get to a point when it seems you can’t hang on a minute longer, never, never give up—for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’” Agatha”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“How is it, she thought, that one can create a character who is more intelligent, more observant, more perceptive than oneself?”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Non è facile credere in qualcosa quando il mondo ti crolla addosso. L'importante, però, è continuare a credere in sé stessi.”
― Lindsay Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Il matrimonio è sempre un salto nel buio, anche quando si pensa di conoscere a fondo l'altro. Alcuni matrimoni funzionano. Ma dubito che ne esistano tanti davvero felici.”
― Lindsay Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Steals into my garden without warning. I am sitting in the camellia grove above the estuary, waiting for the sunset, watching a pair of oystercatchers at the water’s edge, and trying to work out who is going to murder Major Palgrave. The lapping of the tide lulls me to sleep, so I don’t see the boat heading for the mooring. “Mrs. Christie?” His shadow falls across my face. “Who is it?” My eyes snap open.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“For the train, like life, must go on until it reaches its destination. You might not always like what you see out of the window, but if you pull down the blind, you will miss the beauty as well as the ugliness. My finger”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Marriage is always a leap into the unknown, even if you think you know the other person inside out. It works for some people. But I doubt there are many truly happy marriages.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“jumped out to greet them was Michael Cruft-Deacon”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Must a promise be kept when the author of the secret is dead and gone?”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Despite the fact that she was clearly hard at work in the middle of the desert, she still managed to look effortlessly stylish. When Agatha called her name, she jumped up. “Oh! You’re here!” She kissed each of them on both cheeks, French-style, her lips barely grazing the skin. “You both look very well: Baghdad obviously agrees with you. And you look like a Bedouin woman, Nancy, with that tan”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Rose petals.” Katharine swept her arm toward a huddle of stalls farther up the street. “Can you see the sacks? They’re full of dried petals and rosebuds. They use them to flavor the food here as well as for perfume. You can get rose-tasting water and ice cream if you fancy it.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“About ten years. My father had a tea plantation near Trincomalee. I was born”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“tingling sensation,”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express