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Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15) QUOTES

Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15) QUOTES

1 " I have never found ‘luck’ a dependable companion "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

2 " and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

3 " Lady Molly, perhaps? "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

4 " Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy’s mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful. "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

5 " The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out. "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

6 " but having an entire policy of ‘Us Good, Them Bad’ does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers. "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

7 " glass, a substance that went from liquid to solid through the use of fire and air, "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

8 " If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one’s followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at. "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

9 " Dr Freud has many insightful conclusions about the human mind,” I continued bitterly, “but when it comes to women, he might do better investigating the male sex’s preoccupation with cigars. "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)

10 " Sherlock Holmes, to Mary Russell: It seemed to me that your friend's missing aunt took precedence over my history of contrapuntal significance in Bach's cantatas.

Mary Russell: I stared at him. It was one of the sweetest things he'd ever said. "

― Laurie R. King , Island of the Mad (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15)