First-sentence Quote by Agatha Christie Download Open image ““Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...”” — Agatha Christie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barton Died First-sentence People Thinking Rosemary Barton Thinking Rosemary Year Ago
“Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.” — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
“But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.” — Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Copy Share Image
“We only came close to dying six or seven times which I thought was pretty good. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“The first New Year after they died felt like another betrayal -- we were leaving behind the last year in which they had lived,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it, and I've… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I wish she were alive, but I am grateful for her death. If she were alive, I would likely still be working at the… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.” — Geoffrey Household Copy Share Image
“The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and for all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“That’s how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn’t Desdemona charm Othello by the way she… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
