Lyndsay Faye

“What if," replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing.”

— Lyndsay Faye

“I looked up in curiosity. Behind us stood the Brown and Eagle Wool Warehouse and Schneider's Cap Factory, both constructed with that…

— Lyndsay Faye

“I have given up attempting to plumb the depths of the female psyche, Watson. It is not unlike contemplating infinity--a worthy, even…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Besides, Watson,” he added, with a glint of humour in his grey eyes, “you, after all, are a man of the world.…

— Lyndsay Faye

“As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the…

— Lyndsay Faye

“More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body. Holmes was leaning…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Never have I seen a deadlier-looking collection of firemen, street brawlers, Party thugs, and fighting entrepreneurs in my life, and they made…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Charles says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am his Jane; Sardar says…

— Lyndsay Faye

“If Mercy Underhill were any more perfect, it would take a long day's work to fall in love with her. But she…

— Lyndsay Faye

“I hope that the epitaph of the human race when the world ends will be: Here perished a species which lived to…

— Lyndsay Faye

“And here you are, another practical sort - neither Catholic nor Protestant, nor wicked, I think. Let us pray that you are…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Unlooked-for kindness can cut deep as cruelties if they come at the wrong time.”

— Lyndsay Faye

“I don't think I can do this anymore," I told my landlady... "Can anyone else, then?" she asked, voice rough. "I don't…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Whom should I despise, since the one Lord made us all?”

— Lyndsay Faye

“but people cannot help being who they are.” “They can help the things they do because of who they are, however.”

— Lyndsay Faye

“Children are remarkable creatures, hurtling through savage landscapes of sudden laughter and sharp heartbreaks.”

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“for we are doers of deeds, he and I, and as such lose parts of our flesh along the way, and can…

— Lyndsay Faye

“My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes's initials, underneath…

— Lyndsay Faye

“can’t give any credence to the Bible because so many villains quote it.”

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“The door flew open, revealing a wrinkled, forward-thrusting face wreathed with a nimbus of wispy white hair, a face resembling nothing so…

— Lyndsay Faye

“It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon forgotten. We needed more…

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“secrets decay, as corpses do, growing ranker over time.”

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“Nothing is as bad as it seems,' I thought with the last remnants of my dense optimism. It couldn't be. I'd already…

— Lyndsay Faye

“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when…

— Lyndsay Faye