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One must never disregard a message from the universe.
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The past is but the beginning of a beginning. - H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future
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The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.
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You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.
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It is an amazing thing, the difference to one's powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.
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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.
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He said nothing. Very sarcastically.
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Since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.
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if she was finished.
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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.
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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.
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Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
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Holmes, you're a genius.So I have been told. — Laurie R. King
Love was the thing that kept a person going past exhaustion, beyond reason, after hope was at its end. Grit,
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Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.
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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.
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I took to the...Library as to a lover...
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THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic,
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Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.
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When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She
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Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
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Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.
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Pray tell, she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ... — Laurie R. King
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
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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.
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Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
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When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.
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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?
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The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response.
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Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.
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But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
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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.
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When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.
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I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head ...
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Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.
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Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
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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.
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Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
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My God...it can think.
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I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.(A Monstrous Regiment of Women) — Laurie R. King
Moments of pure relaxation were rare for me. There was always the nagging of books unread, work undone, time a-wasting.
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I am watching bees.
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