Laurie R. King Quotes - Page 2

• The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

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  Dog, Lasts, Canine

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• ¿Qué significa perder la cabeza? ¿Adónde se va? Si un hombre está loco, ¿dónde está? ¿Qué es la locura cuando el mundo está loco por contraste?

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  Mean, Men, Mad

  Laurie R. King (2009). “Folly”, p.359, Bantam

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• Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

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  Locura

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• Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

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  Men, Nonsense, Accepting

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• I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

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  Book, Long, Library

  "The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (A Mary Russell Mystery)". Book by Laurie R. King, 1994.

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• Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

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  Doors, Envy, Lovely

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.

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  War, Book, Years

  Laurie R. King (2009). “Night Work”, p.389, Bantam

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• Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

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  Years, Prudes, Holmes

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• When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

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  Together, Stories, Sometimes

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.1434, Bantam

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• I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

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  Jamaica, Wife, Bedroom

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• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

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  Aversion, Machinery, Exception

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• En el cine mudo, las tramas, bastante complejas, se construyen en torno a la acción, el escenario y los gestos y expresiones faciales de los actores, con muy pocos guiones gráficos para concretar los puntos específicos de la trama.

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  Expression, Silent Films, Nails

  "Novelist Laurie R. King talks silent film, Sherlock Holmes and arghhh – pirates!". Interview with Thomas Gladysz, blog.sfgate.com. September 5, 2011.

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• It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

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  Two, Smoking, Yards

  Laurie R. King (2012). “O Jerusalem”, p.119, Allison & Busby

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• But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

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  Teacher, Husband, Hair

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• My God...it can think.

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  Pensar

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• 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 perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.

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  Sweet, Children, Home

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• The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

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  War, Different, World

  "PW Talks with Laurie R. King". Interview with Robert C. Hahn, www.publishersweekly.com. February 18, 2002.

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