“Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“But that is certainly not the sort of information that Caroline is after. She wants to know where he comes from, what he does, whether he is married, what his wife was, or is, like, whether he has children, what his mother’s maiden name was—and so on. Somebody very like Caroline must have invented the questions on passports, I think.”
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them”
― The Devotion of Suspect X
― The Devotion of Suspect X
“Never worry about what you say to a man. They’re so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it’s unflattering.”
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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