agatha christie : and then there were none … sentence starters
“The innocent must not suffer.“
“Uncalled for. Totally uncalled for.”
“Be sure thy sin will find thee out.“
“It’s sane enough what I’m asking.“
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
“You were soon forgotten nowadays.“
“Fear, what a strange thing fear was…“
“One takes things for granted too much.”
“Do you know this part of the world well?“
“I’m a domestic sort of man. I don’t mind.”
“I have an incurably romantic imagination.”
“But who on earth would do such a thing?”
“Really? How extraordinary… I was so sure.”
“You’re very young. You haven’t got to that, yet.“
“Somehow that doesn’t relieve my mind one bit.”
“Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.”
“You may get the killer. But I intend to get the girl.“
“This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.“
“One of us in this very room is, in fact, the murderer.“
“Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you.”
“Somehow, that was the most frightening thing of all.”
“You had no right to speak to me that way at breakfast!“
“You can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.“
“Perhaps we’re dead already and we just don’t realize it.“
“A sign of a clear conscience? Or just a nightcap or two?”
“We’re in hell. And we’re being punished for what we’ve done.“
“It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.“
“Well, that will make for some interesting evenings at home, won’t it?“
“There’s no one in the room. There can’t be. You’re imagining things.”
“It’s only in books people carry revolvers around as a matter of course.“
“I have no intention of getting killed. Death is for other people, not for us.“
“I have always felt that innocent should be spared, and the guilty punished.”
“He would like, really, to take a long holiday. But he couldn’t afford to do that.“
“From my earliest youth, I realized that my nature was a mass of contradiction.”
“That’s peace. Real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on… Yes, peace.“
“When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.”
“I don’t know. I don’t know at all. And that’s what’s frightening the life out of me. To have no idea…”
“There are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators by the usual methods.”
“I always think it’s rather a weakness, to be so affected by something in one’s circumstances.“
“And then, quite suddenly, the solution came to me: I would punish those that the law could not touch!”
“Either I’m embellishing a story for shocking effect, or I’m the only one telling the truth in a room full of liars.“
“I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been.”
“I will thank you to keep your opinions to yourself. Coming from the bottom of a bottle as they do, they are worse than useless.”
“Oh, yes. I’ve no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman… probably a dangerous, homicidal lunatic.“
“Try and vary your methods as you will… your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.“
