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Quotes About Love
One of the things that makes Christie’s stories so fascinating is the way she explores human nature throughout her work. The works of Mary Westmacott were referred to by her daughter Rosalind as ‘bitter-sweet stories of love’, her collections starring Parker Pyne and Mr Harley Quin often contain miniature tales of unrequited love, dangerous infatuation, wayward passion, and desperate devotion. In her autobiographical writing Christie reflects on the importance of love and companionship at every stage of life. Even her crime novels, which might seem to be focused on murder and cruelty contain matchmaking, life-long couples, plenty of romance, and dark, deadly love too. Here are a few of Christie and her character’s musings on love.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realise just how much you love them!
‘Everyone gets engaged on board ship. There’s nothing else to do.’ ‘I don’t want to get married.’ ‘Don’t you?’ said Suzanne. ‘Why not? I love being married—even to Clarence!’
You and I are Fate. Fate let us meet. Fate brought us together. Do you remember when we met at Cannes and I was going on to Estoril and suddenly, when I got there, the first person I met was lovely Kay! I knew then that it was Fate - and that I couldn't escape.
It seemed a strange place and a strange time for a declaration of love - and God knows, in all my imagining, I had never pictured love coming to me in such a guise. But I answered simply and naturally enough: "Because I love you, Cinderella."
He’d been madly in love with Veronica but it wouldn’t have done. Veronica would have swallowed him body and soul.
Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.
Love can be a very frightening thing. That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
She said they had always been ideally happy, that she adored him and he knew it, and that she wanted him and only him.
She’s got the most marvellous hair—sort of golden but very deep, like a jolly old sunset—that’s it, a jolly old sunset. You know, I never noticed things like sunsets until lately.
This murder’s got to be solved! If it isn’t, then Arthur’s whole life will be wrecked—and I won’t have that happen. I won’t! I won’t! I won’t! I won’t have the dear old boy go through hell for something he didn’t do.
Tuppence is my girl! I’ve always loved her, from the time we played together as kids. We grew up and it was just the same.
