Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.