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A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1) QUOTES

A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1) QUOTES

1 " Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

2 " Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

3 " That's the trouble with gathering truth. It's never neat and tidy... "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

4 " No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

5 " I never took you for the defender of Sunday picnics and tea at five "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

6 " Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. —Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by John H. Watson, M.D., “The Adventure of the Yellow Face "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

7 " A man needs an antidote to boredom. A man needs ambition.

To do what? "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

8 " School did prepare a young person for life, but never in the ways parents expected. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

9 " Et pourtant il s'agissait d'un chapitre de son existence qu'elle avait le sentiment de devoir relire avant de pouvoir tout à fait tourner la page. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)

10 " Pessimism is the basis of all sound expectations. If you foresee nothing good, no outrage can shock you. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Silks (The Baskerville Affair, #1)