I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.
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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That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.
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Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.
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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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