“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 Ibn Khaldun 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 Life Copy Share Image
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King Centre Copy Share Image
“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness… — Laurie R. King Loneliness Copy Share Image
“-in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call… — Laurie R. King Bats Copy Share Image
“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly,… — Laurie R. King Faith Copy Share Image
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King After 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
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting,… — Laurie R. King Feminism 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 After Copy Share Image
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on… — Laurie R. King Bedroom 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 took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking… — Laurie R. King Arms 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 Amazing things Copy Share Image
Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once,… — Laurie R. King Affection Copy Share Image
When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits. — Laurie R. King Bits Copy Share Image
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. — Laurie R. King Aversion 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 Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.… — Laurie R. King Ability Copy Share Image
“I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
