Maybe he could see what she was feeling, because an expression flickered across his face that she couldn’t reconcile with the officer she knew. It looked like self-doubt or indecision. “Carter,” he sighed, “this whole situation sucks.”
“Not then, I couldn’t,’ I said. ‘I was just a frightened eighteen-year-old girl with less sense than the Good Lord gave a cabbage.”
― A Picture of Murder
― A Picture of Murder
“If I could tell you only one thing,
My message would be this:
The world would be a lonely place
If you did not exist.”
―
My message would be this:
The world would be a lonely place
If you did not exist.”
―
“I’ve quite taken against the woman,’ she said. ‘I could easily be persuaded that she would kill three people just to get a decent cup of tea.”
― A Picture of Murder
― A Picture of Murder
“A stiff upper lip is much less impressive when its stiffness is caused by its being frozen solid. But”
― A Picture of Murder
― A Picture of Murder
“What would I do without you?’ I thought for a moment. ‘Starve to death, my lady. In the dark.”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
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