“And what was the point of all that, Poirot?” I demanded somewhat reproachfully. “Parbleu, I wanted to estimate the chances of a stranger being noticed entering the shop opposite.” “Couldn’t you simply have asked—without all that tissue of
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“Your wife sounds like a clever woman."
"She is. I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.”
― Circe
"She is. I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.”
― Circe
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
― 1984
― 1984
“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.
“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”
“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Circe
“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”
“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Circe
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