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"Finally getting back to these! I finished the Memoirs. I've liked the short story collections much more than the first two novels. Memoirs felt like it had much more focus on Holmes and Watson in addition to all the detail put into the individual cases. This second collection also felt slightly more diverse in the cases' themes. I enjoy the eccentricity of Holmes." — Aug 09, 2020 05:55PM
"Finally getting back to these! I finished the Memoirs. I've liked the short story collections much more than the first two novels. Memoirs felt like it had much more focus on Holmes and Watson in addition to all the detail put into the individual cases. This second collection also felt slightly more diverse in the cases' themes. I enjoy the eccentricity of Holmes." — Aug 09, 2020 05:55PM
“He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!”
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“Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Candide
― Candide
“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― The Fires of Heaven
― The Fires of Heaven
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