Yun Yi

“life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

“To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Poirot seized his hat, gave a ferocious twist to his moustache, and, carefully brushing an imaginary speck of dust from his sleeve, motioned me to precede him down the stairs; there we joined the detectives and set out for Styles.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary

“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
― Aurthur Conan Doyle