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A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3) QUOTES

A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3) QUOTES

1 " Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3)

2 " Fighting beside Bucky was a bit like guarding the back of a rampaging bear, but it was a role Tobias had played a hundred times back in school. For all his mild manners, Buckingham Penner was a full-steam-ahead kind of fighter with little regard for sneak attacks from behind. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3)

3 " Bucky's expression wasn't hostile, but it was series. "Someday I'm going to fight and you won't be at my back."
"Nonsense. I'm your friend. Who I work for doesn't change that."
"If you leave it too long, you won't have a choice anymore. If the Steam Council turns on the people, each of us is going to have to decide where we belong."
"And you're going to play the rebel? You won't even carry a gun," Tobias snapped. "Your father may own an arms factory, but you make toys for a living."
"I don't carry a gun because I'm too good a shot," Bucky said quietly. "But when I fire, I don't miss. I never want to find you in my sights."
"It's not that simple," Tobias shot back, feeling a need for justification.
Bucky shrugged. "No, but the barons are running out of time, and that means we won't have many more chances to talk before everything falls apart. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3)

4 " Bucky's expression wasn't hostile, but it was serious. "Someday I'm going to fight and you won't be at my back."
"Nonsense. I'm your friend. Who I work for doesn't change that."
"If you leave it too long, you won't have a choice anymore. If the Steam Council turns on the people, each of us is going to have to decide where we belong."
"And you're going to play the rebel? You won't even carry a gun," Tobias snapped. "Your father may own an arms factory, but you make toys for a living."
"I don't carry a gun because I'm too good a shot," Bucky said quietly. "But when I fire, I don't miss. I never want to find you in my sights."
"It's not that simple," Tobias shot back, feeling a need for justification.
Bucky shrugged. "No, but the barons are running out of time, and that means we won't have many more chances to talk before everything falls apart. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3)

5 " Perhaps maturity is the knowledge of how much we can survive. More "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3)

6 " But then someritory, times all it takes is one idiot to kick over the first domino, and everything falls. "

― Emma Jane Holloway , A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair, #3)