Kathryn

“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to us turns out to be the best thing”
― Terah Shelton Harris, One Summer in Savannah

“What causes crime?" Hercule Poirot demanded rhetorically. "It is a question, that. What stimulus is needed? What inbred predisposition does there have to be? Is every one capable of crime- of some crime? And what happens that is what I have asked myself from the beginning, what happens when people who have been protected from real life-from its assaults and ravages--are suddenly deprived of that protection?”
― Agatha Christie, Taken at the Flood

“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“For all that "home" was considered a word of warmth and comfort, policemen knew better. Home is where the heart is, and the heart could be a dark and damaged place.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming