Laurie R. King

Quotes

• “I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, a...”
• “Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel."I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the relu...”
• “I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was al...”
• “I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's b...”
• “Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how u...”
• “I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed...”
• “You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of th...”
• “You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved ir...”
• “Pray tell,” she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and s...”
• “Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.”