- Archie Christie: Not everyone can be happy! Someone has to suffer!
- Agatha Christie: But why should it be me and not you?
- Agatha Christie: I'm afraid I feel rather like one of your fish, doctor. I read they only have a ten second memory. Once around the bowl is it, I'm afraid.
- Archie Christie: [Reacting to Agatha's crying after he asks for a divorce in an angry tone] I did tell you long ago that I hate it when people are ill or unhappy.
- [She cries even louder]
- Archie Christie: It was everything to me!
- Agatha Christie: It was such a time to be alive. You could be anything, and biology would do the rest.