Ola Piper

“Big construction companies, making millions on underground developments such as this, had initially gone to the bother of bringing in cranes to lift mechanical diggers, once their work was done, out of their excavations. Then they’d realized that the cost-benefit analysis actually tipped in the direction of just finding somewhere to hide the digger and leaving it entombed in a wall, the company sometimes going just a little bit beyond the planning permission they’d been given for the few days it took to do so. Ballard had slipped someone at City Hall some cash to get a look at the plans and realized that, yes, the only place the digger could have been entombed was right up against the bank. Its”
― Paul Cornell, Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

“Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.”
― Paul Cornell, Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?