Tamar > Tamar's Quotes

“time is the trickster that changes all things,”
― Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter: A YA Fantasy of Hindu Mythology, Celestial Courts, and a Quest to Save Her Father

“The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.”
― Agatha Christie, Dumb Witness

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“...Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.”
― Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders

“Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders

“Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“What do you call the unforgivable error?” “Overlooking the obvious.”
― Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders

“But what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.”
― Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders

“You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“I have learned to save myself useless emotion.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
― Holly Black , The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“And elsewhere in the woods, there is another party, one taking place inside a hollow hill, full of night-blooming flowers. There, a pale boy plays a fiddle with newly mended fingers while his sister dances with his best friend. There, a monster whirls about, branches waving in time with the music, There, a prince of the Folk takes up the mantle of king, embracing a changeling like a bother, and, with a human boy at his side, names a girl his champion.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.”
― holly black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I don't want anyone normal. I don't want anyone safe. I want you. I have loved you from almost the first moment I saw you, wild and fierce and brave...”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I love you,” Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all. “I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I’ve loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest