Quotes from Sophie Hannah

Thus, reflected Poirot, did some reassurances cause greater alarm than the original remark upon which they sought to improve.

Good day, mademoiselle," Poirot said to a room that was suddenly empty apart from himself and a lingering feeling of desolation

If you will allow Poirot to offer you a piece of wise advice: the pursuit of revenge is rarely a good idea.

He was now firmly of the view that if you wanted to see clearly how one person's character diverged from that of another, the most efficient method was to place both in identical situations.

Fazemos tanto mal a nós e aos outros quando nos ofendemos quanto ao ofendermos.

Para qualquer um que experimentou brutalidade deliberada, a menor gentileza se torna para sempre um choque depois.

Oh, that, certainly, but not only that," said Margaret. "Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.

Algumas vezes você tem de ser corajosa e fazer algo que não se encaixa no padrão geral apenas para sacudir um pouco as coisas, para fazer acontecer.

Pessoas demais ficam olhando e não fazem nada para ajudar pessoas com problemas.

No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. Its the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she. Try telling that to the victim, I thought.

Em vez de desperdiçar toda a minha energia reagindo às muitas coisas ruins que tinham me acontecido, ia correr atrás de uma coisa boa.

Há muita incoerência sem sentido no mundo, a maior parte fruto de estupidez.

It would not have done Poirot any good whatever to state that his wishes were the precise opposite of hers in this respect. Nothing fascinated him more than the private passions of strangers he would probably never meet again.

But change is good for us. If we never make any changes that scare us at first, we end up missing out.

of calling it Kim Peculiar, Kim Ha Ha.

Most people seemed to think stable equalled happy.

When justice is deliberately distorted and denied harm is done.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose.

She'd buy diamond-studded earplugs and go and lie on a beach in the Caribbean where the whining of jealous bastards wouldn't reach her.

Have you tried telling yourself that it's the best fun ever and you're loving every second of it? You'd be amazed how much that'll change your attitude and the outcome.

How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.

How in the name of heaven can anything ever be made better by bloodshed and mass slaughter? How can any improvement be brought about by men who wish only to smash and destroy, who cannot speak of their hopes and dreams without their faces twisting in hatred and anger?

I am innocent. I have not killed anybody. I am the least violently inclined person I have ever met.