"Crooked House" Quotes
A young woman investigates her grandfather's murder in a household full of secrets and suspects.
mystery | 276 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
In a crooked house everything leans and everything is ajar. In a crooked house the soul can hardly be expected to remain upright.
One is alone when one opens the door of a private library.
Everything that has happened once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
It's like a Chinese puzzle, or a differential equation. We may never get to the end of it.
It is quite true that a man's best friend is his dog. Inside a dog it is too dark to read.
The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools.
I've got a mind like a steel trap. Things are in there but they don't often get out.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
