“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 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 somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King 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
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
“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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and… — Laurie R. King 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
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its… — Laurie R. King Daily life 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
“Who am I?’ you mean.” He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. “Do… — Laurie R. King Communication 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
“[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
“ ‘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
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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Academic 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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
![“[Hugh] winced as I squealed the tyres, but after all, it wasn't his motorcar. Holmes did more than wince before we were out of Oxford, but I didn't hit anybody, and only brushed the farm cart slightly. It wasn't his automobile either, and what do men know about driving?” quote by Laurie R. King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/laurie-r-king-9494_detective_hugh-winced-as-i-squealed-the-tyres-but_2456052.jpg)
