Agatha Christie

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#borrowed #bother #come #go #i

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#happen #happy #happy childhood #i #i think

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#habits #had #knew #never #people

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#human #less #something #superhuman #than

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#alive #been #certainly #grand #grand thing

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#acutely #alive #been #certainly #grand

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#corner #crawl #dogs #into #lick

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#love #love you #pay #price #some

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#best time #book #dishes #doing #plan

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#having #i #i think #more #mysteriously