Heather W. Petty > Quotes

“When a person cares for another, he wants to know everything about her all at once.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“Sherlock shrugged. “I don’t understand the need for power, really. There are more important pursuits.”
“Only those who have never felt powerless can afford to think like you.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“Maybe that’s how one becomes a killer. Not with decision, but with acceptance.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“I, of course, had heard of Sherlock Holmes and his secret lab in the basement of the theater. It was just cartoonish enough of an image to spread widely around the school.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“My given name is James."
"James Moriarty."
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"Really? Sherlock wishes to discuss odd names with me?"
"And a point to Miss Moriarty."
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"You're an idiot. Truly.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“Heaven, Mori. When I die, this place will be transported right up into the clouds, so I can flit about the stacks for hours on end, reading into eternity. - Sadie”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“I'll just say right here that whoever thought up the idea of paying dead white authors by the word should have a special place in hell with the rest of the sadists.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“I stood there, on the edge of the bloody bridge, because he was mine. Sherlock was mine and I wanted him. I loved him, and maybe it was wrong, or twisted, but I couldn’t be swayed. Not again.”
― Heather W. Petty, Mind Games

“I don’t know,” he said at last. “Am I afraid of what you might be? Or am I afraid of what I know for certain I would be without the constraints of law?” He looked me straight in the eyes and asked, “Am I more afraid of you or myself?”
― Heather W. Petty, Mind Games

“Everything about you is a surprise."
"That's what it means to be a stranger.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“The silence made our breathing loud, but louder still was the way he looked at me then. A white noise of a look. Everything else fell away and still I became fully aware of every place his body touched mine, of how my hands splayed across his chest.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“I must admit watching the great mind of Sherlock Holmes struggle to ask even a single question was perhaps the best part of that wretched day. Other than the kiss itself. I caught my finger touching my lips and turned my back to him, looking over my shoulder briefly to say, "Looked like you needed a distraction.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“I’d remembered something my Lock had said to me once. That we were our own army. That none could stand before us. In Regent’s Park, for a brief shining moment, I’d thought he and I were finally going to become that. I’d thought maybe we’d belong to each other.  At least for a while. That maybe he could keep me from becoming a monster while slaying one. But it was a stupid, stupid thought. Because as much as we wanted that fantasy to be our reality, even an attempt to make it happen ended only in disaster.”
― Heather W. Petty, Mind Games

“Con? My mother was a con artist married to a copper?" - Mori
"Emily Ferris wasn't just a con artist. She was a master thief." - Alice”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“We were on separate paths, parallel for now, but still separate, our arms stretched across the gap to keep us connected. But the gap was still there, widening every day that I saw the innocent glint in Sherlock’s eyes and felt the black ash of rage staining mine.”
― Heather W. Petty, Mind Games

“Perhaps wishful thinking was the first sign of madness, and I was in a Wonderland trajectory.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori

“I thought all men were the enemy," he said as a tease. I narrowed my eyes. "Well who exactly do you think teaches little girls to see other little girls as the enemy, when in fact it's all just a lie to make sure we never consolidate our talents and rise to power?" I watched Lock's expression brighten and I changed the subject before he said something annoying, like how lovely I looked when I ranted about the patriarchy.”
― Heather W. Petty, Lock & Mori