THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of that in 1914 before the war, a number lower even than in the years following the Bla...
‘Guys’? Doucet asked. I saw three members of l’Académie. Um, Provost? Prévost? That’s it. I’ll contact him. She also spent some time with Josephine Baker, Doucet offered.
My God...it can think.
Interpreting the Bible without training is a bit like finding a specific address in a foreign city with neither map nor knowledge of the language. You might stumble upon the right answer, but in the m...
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling peru...
The water stretched out as far as the eye could see in an expanse of gentle grey-blue swells broken only by the occasional white-capped wavelet and the line of the ship’s passage, unrolling die-straig...
I am watching bees.
Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.
I took to the...Library as to a lover...
When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect.
I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration, not of the darker crannies of human misbehaviour, but of the heights of human speculat...
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
Holmes, you're a genius.So I have been told.
Margery, I blurted out in a passion of frustration. I don't know what to make of you!Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her...
For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.
Don’t stride so, Russell! Holmes whispered fiercely. Throw your boots out in front of you as you walk and let your elbows stick out a bit. It would help if you let your mouth hang open stupidly, and f...
Do to have
When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN
Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories,
But having an entire policy of ‘Us Good, Them Bad’ does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
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