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One must never disregard a message from the universe.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning. - H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future

My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.

The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one's powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

He said nothing. Very sarcastically.

Since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.

if she was finished.

The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.

You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Holmes, you're a genius.
So I have been told.

When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect.

Love was the thing that kept a person going past exhaustion, beyond reason, after hope was at its end. Grit,

Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

Normally, one is only conscious of the room around one, but when no-one else is present, one's awareness is free to fill all the space.

I took to the...Library as to a lover...

THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic,

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Pray tell, she said, although her voice told him not to.
He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.

When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head ...

I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

My God...it can think.

I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women)

Moments of pure relaxation were rare for me. There was always the nagging of books unread, work undone, time a-wasting.

I am watching bees.