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“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”
― Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime

“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“You become increasingly comfortable with madness - and not just the madness of others, but your own. We’re all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Silence can mock.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

“I never realized that courage was so terrifying.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“It’s easier to know who I’m not than to know who I am. When everyone expects me to fail, it’s easier to give up than to try.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere.”
― Marieke Nijkamp

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas,”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
― Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet