agatha christie : and then there were none ⌠sentence starters
âDonât stare like that!â
âThe innocent must not suffer.â
âUncalled for. Totally uncalled for.â
âBe sure thy sin will find thee out.â
âItâs sane enough what Iâm asking.â
âIn the midst of life, we are in death.â
âYou were soon forgotten nowadays.â
âFear, what a strange thing fear wasâŚâ
âOne takes things for granted too much.â
âDo you know this part of the world well?â
âIâm a domestic sort of man. I donât mind.â
âI have an incurably romantic imagination.â
âBut who on earth would do such a thing?â
âReally? How extraordinary⌠I was so sure.â
âYouâre very young. You havenât got to that, yet.â
âSomehow that doesnât relieve my mind one bit.â
âTake no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.â
âYou may get the killer. But I intend to get the girl.â
âThis is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.â
âOne of us in this very room is, in fact, the murderer.â
âUnpleasant to feel that people were discussing you.â
âSomehow, that was the most frightening thing of all.â
âYou had no right to speak to me that way at breakfast!â
âYou canât save someone who doesnât want to be saved.â
âPerhaps weâre dead already and we just donât realize it.â
âA sign of a clear conscience? Or just a nightcap or two?â
âWeâre in hell. And weâre being punished for what weâve done.â
âIt had come about exÂactÂly in the way things hapÂpened in books.â
âWell, that will make for some interesting evenings at home, wonât it?â
âThereâs no one in the room. There canât be. Youâre imagining things.â
âItâs only in books people carry revolvers around as a matter of course.â
âI have no intention of getting killed. Death is for other people, not for us.â
âI have always felt that innocent should be spared, and the guilty punished.â
âHe would like, really, to take a long holiday. But he couldnât afford to do that.â
âFrom my earliest youth, I realized that my nature was a mass of contradiction.âÂ
âThatâs peace. Real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on⌠Yes, peace.â
âWhen a manâs neckâs in danger, he doesnât stop to think too much about sentiment.â
âI donât know. I donât know at all. And thatâs whatâs frightening the life out of me. To have no ideaâŚâ
âThere are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators by the usual methods.â
âI always think itâs rather a weakness, to be so affected by something in oneâs circumstances.â
âAnd then, quite suddenly, the solution came to me: I would punish those that the law could not touch!â
âEither Iâm embellishing a story for shocking effect, or Iâm the only one telling the truth in a room full of liars.â
âI have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been.â
âI will thank you to keep your opinions to yourself. Coming from the bottom of a bottle as they do, they are worse than useless.â
âOh, yes. Iâve no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman⌠probably a dangerous, homicidal lunatic.â
âTry and vary your methods as you will⌠your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.â