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“He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.”
― The Return of Sherlock Holmes
― The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”
― The Library at Mount Char
― The Library at Mount Char
“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow--misery.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Sometimes he looked at her and thought, Gosh, I wonder what's underneath all that anger, all that hard glossy armor? Maybe there's just an innocent, wounded little girl in there who wants to come out and play and be loved and get happy. But now he wondered if maybe that little girl was long gone, or if she'd ever been there at all. What was under all that armor, all that anger? More anger, and more armor. Anger and armor, all the way down.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
Kalan’s 2025 Year in Books
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