“Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
― Taming Flame
― Taming Flame
“Well," he said, "I say, now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of this library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one”
― The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
― The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
“Kirpal’s left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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