“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
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
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? — Laurie R. King Devil Copy Share Image
“THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of… — Laurie R. King Black death 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
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the… — Laurie R. King Entity Copy Share Image
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. — Laurie R. King Assumption 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
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the… — Laurie R. King Book Copy Share Image
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind. — Laurie R. King Argument 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
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
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
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast. — Laurie R. King Pieces Copy Share Image
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser… — Laurie R. King Anything Copy Share Image
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King Books Copy Share Image
“I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a… — Laurie R. King Time Copy Share Image
“Normally, one is only conscious of the room around one, but when no-one else is present, one's awareness is free to fill… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she… — Laurie R. King Feminism 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
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
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 Achieve Copy Share Image
