Page 67 Quotes

“Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

“In the last few seconds he had been trying to make up his mind. He looked up now and met her eyes—shrewd inquiring eyes that met his with a calm, steady gaze. There was a gravity in them which he had not quite expected to find there.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Approaching the handsome suburban dwelling, for the first time Hugh’s anxieties were truly allayed. The Densmores and the Willises weren’t the kind of people you pushed around. The flurry of careless voices within the house increased his sense of security.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“He was nervous about facing Ellen. He would have to give her an explanation for last night, and the only explanation there could be was the facts of the whole sordid mess.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“When Ellen emerged from the bedroom corridor, he knew he hadn’t been wrong in trusting her to handle things the night before. Her competence was implicit in the reassuring way her eyes met his in the moment before she put on her dark sun glasses. There might have been a flicker of relief that he was here, not held by the police.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man