“For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. — Laurie R. King Assumption Copy Share Image
“Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.” — Laurie R. King Life Copy Share Image
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? — Laurie R. King Devil Copy Share Image
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind. — Laurie R. King Argument Copy Share Image
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. — Laurie R. King Aversion Copy Share Image
“My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the… — Laurie R. King Ability Copy Share Image
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“ ‘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… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat… — Laurie R. King About yourself Copy Share Image
“I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life… — Laurie R. King Detective Copy Share Image
I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire;… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“[Hugh] winced as I squealed the tyres, but after all, it wasn't his motorcar. Holmes did more than wince before we were… — Laurie R. King Detective Copy Share Image
“I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King Books Copy Share Image
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate. — Laurie R. King Fear Copy Share Image
“I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.” — Laurie R. King Backwoods Copy Share Image
“I found Shanghai to be the very essence of the Surrealist doctrine: If the world is mad, then the maddest man is… — Laurie R. King Madness Copy Share Image