“Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.” — Laurie R. King Life Copy Share Image
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. — Laurie R. King Assumption 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
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King Books Copy Share Image
“My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.” — Laurie R. King Recognise Copy Share Image
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. — Laurie R. King Aversion 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
“ ‘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 Asked 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
It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make. — Laurie R. King Amazing thing 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
“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
...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 Breathed 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
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 Bones 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 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
“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
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
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
Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with… — Laurie R. King Cheese 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast. — Laurie R. King Feast Copy Share Image
“I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.” — Laurie R. King Backwoods 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
Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman — Laurie R. King Accepting Copy Share Image
“You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.” — Laurie R. King Marriage 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 Codes Copy Share Image
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few… — Laurie R. King Action 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
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
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on… — Laurie R. King Bedroom Copy Share Image
