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“Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.”
― That Affair Next Door
― That Affair Next Door
“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”
― That Affair Next Door
― That Affair Next Door
“Perfect beauty is so rare, its effect so magical!”
― The House of the Whispering Pines
― The House of the Whispering Pines
“There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.”
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“It is not for me to suspect but to detect.”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“I am a comfortable sort of person when alone, and found no difficulty in passing this time profitably. Being very orderly, as you must have remarked, I have everything at hand for making myself a cup of tea at any time of day or night;”
― That Affair Next Door
― That Affair Next Door
“Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“We find what we have been told to search for;”
― The Forsaken Inn
― The Forsaken Inn
“I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it—if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed that my presence had not made everybody else forgotten.”
― The Hermit Of ------ Street
― The Hermit Of ------ Street
“But Fate was in an impish mood that night.”
― The Step On The Stair
― The Step On The Stair
“Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?”
― The Forsaken Inn
― The Forsaken Inn
“Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women.”
― The Forsaken Inn
― The Forsaken Inn
“You have said that if I declared my innocence you would believe me,” she exclaimed, lifting her head as I entered. “See here,” and laying her cheek against the pallid brow of her dead benefactor, she kissed the clay-cold lips softly, wildly, agonisedly, then, leaping to her feet, cried, in a subdued but thrilling tone: “Could I do that if I were guilty? Would not the breath freeze on my lips, the blood congeal in my veins, and my heart faint at this contact?”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“Marriage founded upon deception can never lead to happiness.”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“Words can be said in a moment that will not be forgotten in years.”
― Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories
― Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories
“Don't put it into words. Let us leave some things to be understood, not said.”
― The Step On The Stair
― The Step On The Stair
“You must never, in reckoning up an affair of murder like this, forget who it is that most profits by the deceased man's death.”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“For a few minutes I sat dazed by the sudden flood of light greeting me from the many open windows; then, as the strongly contrasting features of the scene before me began to impress themselves upon my consciousness, I found myself experiencing something of the same sensation of double personality which years before had followed an enforced use of ether. As at that time, I appeared to be living two lives at once: in two distinct places, with two separate sets of incidents going on; so now I seemed to be divided between two irreconcilable trains of thought; the gorgeous house, its elaborate furnishing, the little glimpses of yesterday’s life, as seen in the open piano, with its sheet of music held in place by a lady’s fan, occupying my attention fully as much as the aspect of the throng of incongruous and impatient people huddled about me.”
― ANNA KATHERINE GREEN Ultimate Collection: Amelia Butterworth Series, Detective Ebenezer Gryce Mysteries, The Cases of Violet Strange, Caleb Sweetwater Trilogy & Other Mysteries: Whodunits of NYC
― ANNA KATHERINE GREEN Ultimate Collection: Amelia Butterworth Series, Detective Ebenezer Gryce Mysteries, The Cases of Violet Strange, Caleb Sweetwater Trilogy & Other Mysteries: Whodunits of NYC
“Together, we had fathomed its secret. Together, we had trod its strangely concealed stairway. The sense of an unseen presence which had shaken the hearts of many in traversing its halls was no longer a mystery; but the by-ways in life which the harassed soul must tread have their own hidden glooms and their own unexpectedness; and the echoes of steps we hear but cannot see, linger long in the consciousness and do not always end with the years. Should I brave them? Dare I brave them when something deep within me protested with an insistent, inexorable disclaimer?”
― The Step on the Stair
― The Step on the Stair
“And leaving them there, with the light of growing hope and confidence on their faces, we went out again into the night, and so into a dream from which I have never waked, though the shine of her dear eyes have been now the load-star of my life for many happy, happy months.”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“If you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones, that an idea will make a man and mold a character, that it lies at the source of all heroisms, and is to be courted or feared, as the case may be.”
― Mystery Stories of Violet Strange
― Mystery Stories of Violet Strange
“A woman is a victim of her own emotions.”
― The Step on the Stair
― The Step on the Stair
“It was no mere fancy. Fancy does not remold a man in a moment. Fancy has its ups and downs, its hot minutes and-its cold. This was a steady inspiration; an enlarge¬ ment of the soul such as I had hitherto been a stranger to, and which I knew then, as plainly as I do now, would serve to make my happiness or my misery as Fortune lent her aid or passed me coldly by.”
― The Step On The Stair
― The Step On The Stair
“Oh the hunger in his stare!”
― The Step on the Stair
― The Step on the Stair
“I felt a thrill. Something more than wealth more even than love, was to be my portion. The living of a clean life in sight of God and man.”
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“I tried to divert myself by reading, and I think my love for books which presently grew into a passion had its inception in that monotonous succession of day after day without a break in the suspense which held me like a hand upon my throat.”
― The Step On The Stair
― The Step On The Stair
“The smile he gave me in reply would have made the fortune of a Thespian Mephistopheles.”
― Delphi Complete Works of Anna Katharine Green
― Delphi Complete Works of Anna Katharine Green
“I wished to knit her beauty so firmly into the warp and woof of my being that nothing could ever serve to tear it away. For I saw then as plainly as now that, coquette though she was, she would never stoop to me. No; I might lie down at her feet and let her trample over me; she would not even turn to see what it was she had stepped upon.”
― The Leavenworth Case
― The Leavenworth Case
“Yet I was glad to see her weep, for only first offenders weep, and first offenders are amenable to influence, especially if they have been led into wrong by impulse, and are weak rather than wicked. Anxious”
― Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories
― Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories
