The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

AnatasiaYou Are My More My Love, My LifeChristian

The flock mirror the madness of their liege.

He prefers his adventures second hand.

Ponder upon the many misgivings of man and you shall be eternally in the state of pondering. -

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.