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Barrowbeck
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Indeed, some gods were like cruel children, Dewin said. Children with sharp sticks and an insatiable fascination for watching things suffer. But unlike children, they could not be chastised or changed. Their toys could not be taken away.
“An addict of any kind is always on the lookout for newer, more intense experiences. After a time he builds up an immunity to the rush of sensation he receives from his addiction. He seeks greater heights, higher stakes.”
― Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
― Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
“We can never know everything,” Holmes said, “but I fear that everything knows us.”
― Shadows Over Baker Street
― Shadows Over Baker Street
“And now Kevin is gone, too, and the department decays in a hundred subtle ways without his constant attention, and despite everything I saw that night, despite everything that I know, about him, about the world, I would welcome him back, if I saw him again.”
― The Private Life of Elder Things
― The Private Life of Elder Things
“I guess when you chase through the millennia playing such strange games with a man you once loved it's bound to make you a little upset when you eat him.”
― Hidden Spark
― Hidden Spark
“Cynicism is simply realism with a veneer of irony.”
― Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
― Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
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