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Angry, I think. I didn’t remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail. What good was it to be angry at my father, or my stepmother, or angry at the servants who were rude to
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“In ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’ – Conan Doyle’s favourite Sherlock Holmes story – a ‘swamp adder … the deadliest snake in India’, trained by bowls of milk and recalled by a whistle, slithers down a bell pull, kills a sleeping woman and returns to its master by climbing up the bell pull and entering the adjoining room through a ventilator. There is no such reptile as a ‘swamp adder’, there are no adders in India, snakes do not like milk, are completely deaf, and no snake could climb a bell pull.”
― The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography
― The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography
“(Holmes to Watson: ‘Work is the best antidote to sorrow’),”
― The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography
― The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography
“Regardless of the circumstances of our births”
― Slight and Shadow
― Slight and Shadow
“There are times when death seems certain”
― Harbinger
― Harbinger
“The alphabet of scars exists so that those lessons need not be carved into our flesh a second time. Holocaust, author unknown”
― The Book That Held Her Heart
― The Book That Held Her Heart
Blue Bloods!
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Welcome to the Beyond Reality SF&F discussion group on GoodReads. In Beyond Reality, each of our members may nominate one SF and one fantasy book per ...more
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