C Xavier > Quotes

“A case is not improved by burying the people who solve it.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“Guesswork is the refuge of the lazy mind that cannot be bothered to trace the links of cause and effect,”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“even the most stable system cannot withstand the weight of absolute truth.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“A fact is difficult to bury when it has been given several addresses.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“Time and the London and North Western Railway wait for no man.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“The house amplified every sound, a resonance chamber for all the secrets it contained.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“Holmes had supplied the logic; the courts had supplied a verdict. I would supply continuity.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“Justice is not the recovery of what was lost, Watson. It is the refusal to pretend the loss had no author.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“Institutions are often more honest in their archives than in their decisions.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“I work within the law because the law is the only instrument by which a wrong may be acknowledged and entered upon the record.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“a mind that had weighed every variable and yet found itself at the mercy of the most unpredictable element in any investigation: human judgement.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“transition from the role of a victim to that of an observer.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“A silenced fellow speaks loudest in his absence.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“Justice is a social construct, governed by forces far more volatile than logic.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Ardlamont Enigma

“I am hanging a lantern in a dark lane and waiting to see who walks towards it.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“Heroism generally feels like fear with a task attached.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow

“A closed avenue may justify forcing a door. It does not justify burning the house around it.”
― C Xavier, Sherlock Holmes The Silenced Fellow