Quim

“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“But I—the man from outside, the stranger passing by, see only—facts!”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin

“Knowledge, self confident knowledge, which is sure that it is faultless, is faith.”
― Eugene Zamiatin, We

“A strange person, this Mr. Quin, with a knack of showing you the things you had known all along in a totally different light.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin