Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery AllinghamWhen one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
Margery AllinghamIt's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.
Margery AllinghamThere are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
Margery Allingham