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“You see, but you do not observe.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.'
'I shall be delighted.'
'You don't mind breaking the law?'
'Not in the least.'
'Nor running a chance of arrest?'
'Not in a good cause.'
'Oh, the cause is excellent!'
'Then I am your man.'
'I was sure that I might rely on you.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex…there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“I love and am loved by a better man than he.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient(for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered door...I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problems.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“Bohemya Krallığı'nı tehdit eden büyük bir skandalın ve Sherlock Holmes'un bir kadının zekasına yenilmesinin hikayesiydi bu. O günden beri bir daha kadınların zekasıyla ilgili espriler yaptığını duymadım. Ayrıca Irene Adler'den veya fotoğrafından her zaman övgüyle söz etti.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“Never theorize before you have data.Invariably you end up twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
-Sherlock holmes”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“Per Sherlock Holmes ella è sempre la donna. Raramente l’ho sentito accennare a lei in altro modo. Ai suoi occhi, supera e annulla tutte le altre esponenti del suo sesso.”
― quote from A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, quote from The Long Goodbye
“As sure as the seabirds in flight,
As sure as the endless deep blue,
My love is as certain as sunrise.
I vow it will keep us both true.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Rogue Wave
“..kennis, die op zijn sterkst is bij onze geboorte, wanneer wij haar het hardst nodig hebben omdat ons nog geen andere middelen ter beschikking staan om te overleven en die minder wordt naarmate wij leren te denken in plaats van te voelen, dat instinctieve weten is niet vergaan. Het ligt alleen bedolven onder de lawine aan argumenten en redeneringen die wij tegenwoordig nodig hebben om onze wereld voor onszelf begrijpelijk te maken. Af en toe, een enkele keer in een droom, in een moment van verstrooiing vinden we er misschien ineens iets van terug.”
― Arthur Japin, quote from In Lucia's Eyes
“I felt Alec's glare so I turned to look at him and smiled when I found him all but drilling holes into me with his eyes.
"If looks could kill, I'd be dead," I joked.
"My pretty eyes won't harm you, don't worry."
Conceited much?
"Did you just call your own eyes pretty?"
Alec devilishly grinned then and it made me slightly uneasy.
"No, you said I have pretty eyes."
Was he high?
"Are you in your right mind? I have never said you have pretty eyes-"
"Yes, you have. Right before you fell asleep. You said I have pretty eyes."
I felt my face heat up.
It was the shite he gave me to knock me out that said that, not me!
"Did I say anythin' else?" I murmured.
Alec leaned in close to me and whispered is a slow, seductive voice, "You said you like my voice, my abs, and my ass."
I audibly gasped. "I did not!"
Alec snickered. "You did."
I was mortified, absolutely mortified!
"I hate you right now.”
― L.A. Casey, quote from Alec
“Feelings are never right or wrong,” she said after a moment. “They just are.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
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