I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.