“Happiness, do not leave me.
I know you, a capricious monarch
perching on the fortunate flowers you see.
Hear me:
I am too attached to this royalty now.
Can I make you rest here somehow?
I will offer you the nectar of every flower in blossom,
the honey of every fruit in harvest.
I will make the Earth a garden,
the entire universe a forest.
I beg of you not to flutter by.
I beg of you not to leave me, butter-coloured fly.
Nest here
and for you,
I will create a home.”
―
I know you, a capricious monarch
perching on the fortunate flowers you see.
Hear me:
I am too attached to this royalty now.
Can I make you rest here somehow?
I will offer you the nectar of every flower in blossom,
the honey of every fruit in harvest.
I will make the Earth a garden,
the entire universe a forest.
I beg of you not to flutter by.
I beg of you not to leave me, butter-coloured fly.
Nest here
and for you,
I will create a home.”
―
“Watson: "You may be right."
Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
“She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.”
― The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
― The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
“You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
“Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.”
― Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.”
― Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
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