

“The breaking of a piece of bad news nearly always sets up a defence reaction. It numbs the recipient. They are unable—at first—to take it in. Full realization takes a little time.”
― The Complete Miss Marple Collection
― The Complete Miss Marple Collection

“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”
― The Moving Finger
― The Moving Finger

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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