Abeer

“No, my friend Hastings," he would say; "we leave that to Giraud and his friends. Hercule Poirot's methods are his own. Order and method, and 'the little gray cells.' Sitting at ease in our own arm-chairs we see the things that these others overlook, and we do not jump to the conclusion like the worthy Japp.”
― Agatha Christie, The Big Four

“If you kill your wife, you don’t concoct a tall tale about somebody locking you in a van and making you fight to the death. You do it discretely, you hide the body, you claim innocence.”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly

“Well, in those days, and I think Steph was probably the same – I used to believe that criminals were evil people. “Catch and lock ’em up” was my attitude. But you’ve taught us to think differently: that people who do bad things are mostly damaged themselves and maybe they were trapped in circumstances where another person might have behaved in the same way. Something pushed them over the edge. You know what I mean, sir?”
― J.R. Ellis, The Brewery Murders

“Then I always reflect. It could have been different; why wasn’t it? What evil combination of factors came together and caused this to happen?’ ‘I suppose in the end that’s one of the mysteries of life, isn’t it, sir?”
― J.R. Ellis, The Brewery Murders