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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1) QUOTES

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

2 " XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

3 " You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

4 " Eccentricty had flowered into madness. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

5 " ...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

6 " I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

7 " My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

8 " Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

9 " However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

10 " He said nothing. Very sarcastically. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

11 " My God...it can think. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

12 " Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

13 " I took to the...Library as to a lover... "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

14 " . . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . . "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

15 " I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

16 " Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

17 " Who am I?’ you mean.” He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. “Do you know what a fugue is?” “Are you changing the subject?” “No.” I thought in silence for some distance before his answer arranged itself sensibly in my mind. “I see. Two discrete sections of a fugue may not appear related, unless the listener has received the entire work, at which time the music’s internal logic makes clear the relationship.” “A conversation with you is most invigorating, Russell. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

18 " 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 speculation concerning the nature of the Divine. That the two were not unrelated did not occur to me for years. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

19 " That’s what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

20 " I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. ‘It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.’ ‘And their schooling,’ added Holmes sententiously. "

― Laurie R. King , The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)