"I took to the Bodleian library as to……" — Laurie R. King
"I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books."
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35 Quotes by Laurie R. King
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The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the…
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Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
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It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.
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Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
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Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens,…
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I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I…
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I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a…
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I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless…
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...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in…
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I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I…
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Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on…
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Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.
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