Miranda Owen

“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

“I use the word drifted advisedly. I have read novels in which young people are described as bursting with energy—joie de vivre, the magnificent vitality of youth … Personally, all the young people I come across have the air of animal wraiths.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“He smiled, a lazy curve of full lips that reminded her keenly of how those sensual lips had felt moving against hers. He leaned toward her, his voice meant for her ears alone. “Because your family and guests would be quite distressed to discover you had deceived them into believing you were married.”
― Debra Dier, Scoundrel

“In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known.”
― Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger