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“I deal with long blank stretches of empty boredom by laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, imagining situations in which I might…

— Eva Morgan

“Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“By Jove!" I cried; "if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him. I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Lyndsay Faye

“In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of gaslight and smoke, Holmes would sit,…

— Graham Moore

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover,…

— Cath Staincliffe

“...as he cannot sleep on Helen's side, which is where he has secretly arranged three of her embroidered pillows, and sleeps facing them, one…

— Amy Bloom

“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“...after our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their…

— Eleanor Brown

“spell. Reluctant to stop reading, she closed the book, and then slipped it into her purse so she could pick it up later at…

— C.J. Carmichael