dialogue prompts from the last séance: tales of the supernatural by agatha christie.
do not be too ready to see the devil in everything you do not understand.
you are a good, faithful creature.
something terrible is going to happen to me.
all you need is rest. rest, and quiet.
with your arms around me, i feel safe. i forget my life.
there is danger, i tell you. i can feel it. great danger.
there are things that matter more than money.
a mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
i hold you to your promise.
what has been happening here?
it's just a thing that happened.
i convinced myself i had had some kind of hallucination.
what would you have done, in my place?
i knew, but i couldn't change.
i wouldn't sleep alone here for anything.
shut the door. don't stand there half the night.
your clothes will be dry by morning.
you couldn't turn out a dog in this weather.
something is wrong in this house.
i'm a practical person. i don't imagine things.
i prayed for a miracle, and you knocked on the door.
what are your views on the supernatural?
you must not underrate the force of superstition.
it can't be anything but coincidence.
violence will be of no avail.
are you in favor of talking or sleeping?
you make me positively uncomfortable.
i have time to tell you the story, if you care to hear it.
one most keep strong and well. it is everything to keep strong and well.
i recognized you at once.
i shall not permit myself to die.
it is the will to live that matters. all of the great doctors say that, nowadays.
you hate me. you have always hated me.
you look quite different.
life was made for laughter.
i am not as stupid as i pretend to be, perhaps.
i can play many parts, and play them very well.
there are strange things going on in this house.
there is such a thing as atmosphere.
you give me the creeps. you really do.
anything might happen to us here.
i shouldn't go in, if i were you.
tell me what you came to tell me.
i always know when bad things are coming.
my nerves are in a rotten state.
my pretty lamb. so sweet and gentle.
there's only one life one can be sure about: this one.
i'm not the 'falling in love' kind.
i thought i knew ____ so well.
you've been up to your tricks again.
what have they been doing to you?
how do i know you're ______?
'possible'? that is not a word i care to meddle with.
who is it you suspect of wanting to kill you?
have you ever been hypnotized?
i notice you're not overcome with surprise.
you are very gloomy these days.
your eyes are like pansies: velvety and soft and dark.
you've been watching me. why?
i have never felt so helpless.
don't try to think. be content to forget.
you would jeer and laugh if i were dying.
i don't like killing. not even wasps.
money can't buy everything, but it can buy everything i want.
i don't believe in anything i can't see and hear and touch.
i have let myself get fond of you.
why tell me now, when it's too late?
we're pretty safe here, for the time being.
only my dreams seem real to me.