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    M.C. Beaton
    “Agatha had that old feeling of being on the outside of life looking in.”
    M.C. Beaton, The Potted Gardener

  • #2
    M.C. Beaton
    “How odd that people could be so ugly, not particularly because of appearence, but because of the atmosphere of judgemental bad temper and discontent they carried around with them”
    Beaton, M.C.
    tags: wisdom

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #11
    Cindy Anstey
    “Juliana was momentarily at a loss for words, a strange condition for her. It didn’t last long.”
    Cindy Anstey, Love, Lies and Spies

  • #12
    Cindy Anstey
    “The wonderful aspect of books is that they wait for you … and are not in the least insulted if you deviate for a bit.”
    Cindy Anstey, Suitors and Sabotage

  • #13
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #14
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #15
    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

  • #16
    Agatha Christie
    “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #17
    Agatha Christie
    “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #18
    Agatha Christie
    “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
    Agatha Christie

  • #20
    Agatha Christie
    “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #21
    Agatha Christie
    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #22
    Agatha Christie
    “In the midst of life, we are in death.”
    Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

  • #23
    Agatha Christie
    “The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
    Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  • #24
    Agatha Christie
    “Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
    Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

  • #25
    Agatha Christie
    “I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

  • #26
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “We all have souls of different ages”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #27
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #28
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The beginning is always today.”
    Mary Shelley

  • #29
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
    Mary Shelley

  • #30
    Agatha Christie
    “But there are three people, madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father Confessor, to her hairdresser and to her private detective – if she trusts him.”
    Agatha Christie, Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery



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