Quotes from Laurie R. King

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

I found Shanghai to be the very essence of the Surrealist doctrine: If the world is mad, then the maddest man is the most sane. - Damian Adler

This threatens to become a circular argument," Holmes said. "I know it's there because it's all that explains the facts. My wife tells me that astronomers posit the existence of an invisible planet by the effects it has on the orbit of other celestial bodies. Thus do I posit the existence of this object.

and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.

I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins.

felt my face relax into a smile of distinct pleasure—nay, call it by name: pure joy. For of all the rules of beekeeping, Rule Three is prime: Never, ever, cease to feel wonder.

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

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

My dear man, every woman has felt herself surrounded by foxes at one time or another, if not by wolves.

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room.

I am getting old, Russell. Gone are the days when I could scramble about on the moors all day and curl up happily at night with a thin blanket and a stone for a pillow. Three nights on floorboards and one night without sleep following three days at strenuous labour make me aware that I am no longer a callow youth.

Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy's mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful.

Guys'?" Doucet asked. "I saw three members of l'Académie." "Um, Provost?" "Prévost?" "That's it." "I'll contact him. She also spent some time with Josephine Baker," Doucet offered.

Mr Mudd, you see but you do not observe.

if she was finished.

Good morning, Mrs. Hudson," I called out softly, figuring that Holmes was still asleep. He often was in the mornings, as he kept odd hours—sleep was a concern of the body and of convenience, he declared, not of the clock.

No, the path of God has often been diverted to lead to a human desire, the word of God twisted to suit human ambition. Were

My lunch consisted of a glass of wine (which the waiter solemnly called "grape juice")

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

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

A spray of burning tobacco flew into the air, followed by furious slaps and the stench of scorched wool. Once Holmes was sure he was not about to go up in flames, he turned to the driver in a fury.

Jerusalem is a golden bowl full of scorpions.

Those are moments of grace. Uncertainty is removed. Mind, heart, and body fuse together, and decisions are made without pause for reflection.