The Tapestry Bag Quotes

“Well, I suppose it’s information that is not to be shared?’ ‘And a lie?’ ‘In essence, it’s the same thing. A lie might be the words that are spoken in place of the secret, or the words that are not spoken. A lie can be the silence.”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“What’s your definition of a secret?”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“who is ‘the wind beneath my wings’.”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“you need to learn to let go, see where fate takes you. You can’t always be in control of things, in fact, I find that none of us are ever in control.”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“I have a little idea, a very strange, and probably utterly impossible idea. And yet – it fits in.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Poirot gave me one look, which conveyed a wondering pity, and his full sense of the utter absurdity of such an idea. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Well, I think it is very unfair to keep back facts from me.’ ‘I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them. This time it is a question of ideas.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Will you repeat to us what you overheard of the quarrel?’ ‘I really do not remember hearing anything.’ ‘Do you mean to say you did not hear voices?’ ‘Oh, yes, I heard the voices, but I did not hear what they said.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small – it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.’ That way lies confusion. Everything matters.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“You are annoyed, is it not so?’ he asked anxiously, as we walked through the park. ‘Not at all,’ I said coldly. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“No, mon ami, I am not in my second childhood! I steady my nerves, that is all.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“too bright, too early’.”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Chapter 6 ‘My dear Poirot,’ I said coldly, ‘it is not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have to mine.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“My dear Poirot,’ I said coldly, ‘it is not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have to mine.’ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Like a good detective story myself,’ remarked Miss Howard. ‘Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Every one dumbfounded. Real crime – you’d know at once.”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...

“Why did you not tell me? Why? Why?’ He appeared to be in an absolute frenzy. ‘My dear Poirot,’ I expostulated, ‘I never thought it would interest you. I didn’t know it was of any importance.’ ‘Importance? It is of the first importance”
― Isabella Muir, The Tapestry Bag: Sleuthing amid the highs and lows of 1960s England...