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More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body. Holmes was leaning with his back against the wall, his countenance deathly white. "The door was open," he said incongruously. "I was passing by, and the door was open." "Holmes," I whispered in horror. "The door was open," he said once more, and then buried his face in his hands.


Lyndsay Faye


#horror #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #death

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]


Arthur Conan Doyle


#cooking #cuisine #food #limitations #scotch

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #the-sign-of-four #imagination

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#dr-watson #mystery #sherlock-holmes #art

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#justice

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#morbid #moriarty #science #sherlock #skull

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#belief #rewriting-history #sherlock-holmes #belief

I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.


Laurie R. King


#humor #romance #sherlock-holmes #humor

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#watson #sherlock-holmes

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #watson #humor






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