Bonnie MacBird > Quotes

“There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.’ —Abraham Lincoln”
― Bonnie MacBird, The Devil’s Due

“It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or simply boredom of inactivity, could send [Holmes] spinning into a paralysed gloom from which [I] could not retrieve him.”
― Bonnie MacBird, Art in the Blood

“Watson, there are those rare people who elicit behaviour from us that others may not. Let me suggest that you were one man on the battlefield, another with your patients, a third altogether with Mary and perhaps a fourth in my company, for example?'
'No, Holmes. I am always myself. Well, perhaps I smoke less around Mary.'
He smiled at this.
'But whatever the situation, I try always to be the best man I can be.”
― Bonnie MacBird, Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder

“As Thomas Carlyle said, ‘Writing is a dreadful labour, yet not so dreadful as idleness.”
― Bonnie MacBird, The Devil’s Due

“In seconds I was hurtling through the streets towards Baker Street. As we tore around a corner, I could feel the wheels slipping in the mounting snow, and the cab lurched dangerously. I rapped on the roof. 'Faster, man!' I shouted.”
― Bonnie MacBird, Art in the Blood

“He looks a bit mad!’ I remarked. ‘Or perhaps ready to embark on some shady diversion.’
Holmes turned to me in amusement. ‘Possibly. One never knows with an artist.”
― Bonnie MacBird, Art in the Blood

“My friend was an odd duck, and duck hunting was a favourite pastime of many.”
― Bonnie MacBird, What Child is This?

“There was a silence. Holmes smoked, Mycroft poured himself a small brandy and took a sip. It was nine in the morning. Where was my coffee?”
― Bonnie MacBird, Art in the Blood