Page 148 Quotes

“Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were.
Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“If he were fighting only the routine means of inquiry, it would be hard enough to endure, but to be pitted against personal venom became in time intolerable.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man