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Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".

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There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Artist, Awakened, Desire, Make, Spirit, Two

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

Age, Like, Mirror, Mirrors, Soul

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

Fingers, Forgets, Never Forget, Pointed, Suspicion, Way

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

Children, Dare, Disclose, Like, Secret, Suffering

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

Promise, Running, Runs, Smile

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Beneath, Condolences, Feet, Smallest, Sympathy

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Apathy, Existence, Experience, Quickest, Suffering

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Intelligence, Man, Men, Presence, Wit, Wits

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

Countenance, Hand, Hands, Reveal

The very shadows seem to listen.

Listen, Seems, Shadow, Shadows

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

Companion, May, Safe, Satisfactory, Secret, Study

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Adventure, Adventures, Capable, Feels, Though