Talk:The Thirteen Problems

by Agatha Christie (1933)

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The Bloodstained Pavement (ch. 4)

"Aunt Jane," said Raymond, looking at her curiously, "how do you do it? You have lived such a peaceful life and yet nothing seems to surprise you."

"I always find one thing very like another in this world," said Miss Marple.

--Faterson 21:54, 11 February 2007 (CET)

ib. (= ending)

She [Miss Marple] shook her head.

"There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is."

--Faterson 21:54, 11 February 2007 (CET)

The Thumbmark of St Peter (ch. 6)

"God forbid that I should ever regard village life as peaceful and uneventful," said Raymond with fervour. "Not after the revelations we have heard from you! The cosmopolitan world seems a mild and peaceful place compared with St Mary Mead."

"Well, my dear," said Miss Marple, "human nature is much the same everywhere, and, of course, one has opportunities of observing it at closer quarters in a village."

"You really are unique, Aunt Jane," cried Joyce.

--Faterson 22:34, 11 February 2007 (CET)

Miss Marple ib. (ch. 6)

'There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me. [...]' ¶

--Faterson 22:36, 11 February 2007 (CET)

Miss Marple ib.

¶ "[...] I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself. ¶ [...]"

--Faterson 23:02, 11 February 2007 (CET)