Laurie R. King Quotes

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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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  Shoes, Differences, Pairs

  Laurie R. King (2012). “O Jerusalem”, p.55, Allison & Busby

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

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  Book, Pages

  Laurie R. King (2014). “A Monstrous Regiment of Women”, p.124, Allison & Busby

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• 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.

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  Female, Fool, Helping

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.112, Macmillan

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

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  Mind, Insult, Argument

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.273, Bantam

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• 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 smell and feel of all those books.

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  Book, Long, Library

  "The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (A Mary Russell Mystery)". Book by Laurie R. King, 1994.

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• Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

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  Phrases, Wells

  Laurie R. King (2013). “Touchstone”, p.338, Allison & Busby

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• Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

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  Fire, Fire Of Love, Thrown

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

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  Fear, Hate, Tears

  Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.141, Macmillan

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• I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

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  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

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  Assumption, Possibility, Careless

  Laurie R. King (2005). “Locked Rooms: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes”, p.279, Bantam

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• I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.

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  Passion, Men, Thinking

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

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  Leaving, Details, Daily Life

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.785, Bantam

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• Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

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  Library, Made, Reader

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• 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 Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

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  Jobs, Book, Hymns

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• However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

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  Worry, Mind, Mysterious

  Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.297, Macmillan

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• The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.

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  Daughter, Voice, Mind

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• Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

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  Pride, Pieces, Poor

  Laurie R. King (2004). “The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes”, p.379, Bantam

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• Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache.

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  Believe, Taken, Thinking

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• Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.

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  Daughter, Distance, Eye

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• The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

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  Hands, Flesh, Pages

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• I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

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  Dark, Giving, Curiosity

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.151, Allison & Busby

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• Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

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  Mean, Fire, Essence

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.441, Bantam

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• Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

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  Men, Nonsense, Accepting

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• Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

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  Air, Giving, Missing

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• Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

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  Madness

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