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The Thames wore the night like a bruise. Tar and bilge, wet hemp and piss ran together on the cobbles, and the fog came up from the water thick as wool, taking lantern light and smearing it to butter.
“The pink hadrosaur jumps over 13 purple griffins in the icebox”
― Chaos
― Chaos
“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
“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
“We can never know everything,” Holmes said, “but I fear that everything knows us.”
― Shadows Over Baker Street
― Shadows Over Baker Street
“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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