Henrietta Savernake quotes from Agatha Christie's Poirot

Henrietta Savernake

Aren't you an artist, too, Monsieur Poirot?

Hercule Poirot

On the whole, I would say no. Oh, I have known crimes that were artistic, supreme exercises of the imagination, but the solving of them, no. No, the creative power is not what is needed. What is required is a passion for the truth.

Henrietta Savernake

Why did you do it, Gerda? Why did you kill John?

Because it was all a lie! Everything! I thought he was the noblest man in the world. But I saw his face when he followed that woman that evening. I knew he'd loved her before he'd married me, but I thought ... I thought it was over. I tried to sleep, but I couldn't. It was the middle of the night. I had to know. They were there. I could hear them. John and Veronica Cray. I believed in him as though he were God. I worshipped him. And it was all a lie. I had to kill him. You do see that? I had to.

Henrietta Savernake

What happens to me now?

Hercule Poirot

Go, my child. Your place is with the living. I will remain here with the dead.