The Christie Affair Quotes

“Sunny. Proves rich or poor doesn’t matter, if you ask me. Some people are just born happy. I think that’s the luckiest thing. If you’re sunny inside, you never have to worry about the weather.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Love and reason have never been well acquainted.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“If you’re sunny inside, you never have to worry about the weather.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Sometimes a life is so entirely disrupted, on such a large and ungraspable scale, all one can do is face the ruined day.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“An emotional sort. As if there is any other kind of human.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“We both know you can’t tell your own story without exposing someone else’s.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.” —HERCULE POIROT”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Archie had broken rules with passion as his excuse, and she was asked to rationally pick up the pieces.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“The English love of tea as solution to life’s ills does make us easy to poison.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Do you think she's beautiful?" Agatha asked. "That...girl."
She'd been on the brink of using a different word, Chilton could tell. He answered with a lack of propriety and a wealth of honesty, because both seemed to be what she needed: "Not as beautiful as you."
For a moment, based on the fervency that held every one of Agatha's features absolutely quiet, he thought she might lean over and kiss him.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Harm could be wrought by inaction as much as action. And”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Among Agatha’s enviable qualities, perhaps the most significant was her ability to thrive in this man’s world. Following the rules but managing also to rise above them.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Nothing in life unfolds the way you think it will, does it?”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Yuè Lǎo. The invisible thread.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Thirty-six is an age one looks back on as young. But at the time, living in thirty-six-year-old skin, it doesn't feel young. Women start believing themselves old so soon, don't they? Agatha didn't realize it was her youth that allowed her to sit for hours in that comfortless rock of a chair, staring at her pages without need of spectacles, nary a twinge from the small of her back. One day far into the future she would look back on this time in her life and understand she had not been old, or even middle-aged, but young, with the bulk of her life ahead of her, not to mention the best of it.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can’t they?”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“I see the kind of determination you only recognize if you’ve felt it yourself. Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“There’s a Chinese legend called Yuè Lǎo, have you heard it? When we’re born, the gods tie an invisible thread around our little finger, which connects us to our one true love. No matter what forces try to keep us apart.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“In America we went to Florence Crittenton homes. In England to Clark’s House, or any of the various homes run mostly by the Anglican Church. In Australian hospitals, babies were taken from mothers who were drugged, incapacitated, unwilling. And some of us didn’t go anywhere at all. We bled to death on butcher’s tables. We jumped off bridges. The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“It seemed an important lesson for a young person. It wasn't only the angry people that should make one wary. The jolly ones could be even more dangerous.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“¿Acaso no conoces sucesos que te conciernen, pero de los que no fuiste testigo? ¿No te encuentras, a veces, contándolos? Hay muchas cosas que recordamos que nunca hemos visto con nuestros propios ojos ni vivido con nuestros propios cuerpos. Es una simple cuestión de encajar lo que sabemos, lo que nos han contado y lo que imaginamos. No es muy diferente a cómo un investigador reúne las respuestas a un crimen.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Una persona joven no puede conocer su vida, lo que será o cómo se desarrollará. Al crecer, adquieres la sensación de que las dificultades se limitan a momentos concretos en el tiempo, de que pasarán. Sin embargo, cuando eres joven, un único instante parece el mundo entero. Lo sientes permanente. Años después, pasaría a vivir una vida mejor. Viajaría por el mundo. Pero aquel invierno era apenas una niña.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Some people are just born happy. I think that’s the luckiest thing. If you’re sunny inside, you never have to worry about the weather.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Anyone who says I have no regrets is either a psychopath or a liar.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“It's only that the world's changed too much, in ways it shouldn't. And so it's changed how time passes. The trenches were yesterday, or an hour ago.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“Show me an unemotional sort and I’ll show you someone dangerous.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“A mystery should end with a killer revealed, and so it has. A quest should end with a treasure restored. And so it has. A tragic love story must end with its lovers dead or parted. But a romance. That should end with lovers reunited.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

“A man does like it when a woman tries, especially when she’s foreign to him, as his wife had become the moment he’d decided to tell her he was leaving.”
― Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair