"I hope that the epitaph of the human race when the world ends will be: Here perished a species which lived to tell stories. We tell stories to strangers to ingratiate ourselves, stories to lovers to b..."
- Lyndsay Faye
"But I will be a beautiful disaster."
"And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency."
"I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones."
"Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing."
"More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body.Holmes was leaning with his back against the wall, his countenance deathly white. "The door was open," he s..."
"Though I no longer presumed to have a conscience, I have never once lacked feelings."
"Charles says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am his Jane; Sardar says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am my own Jane; Sahjara says that she does not..."
"My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes's initials, underneath which ran the words, "With the Respects of Scotlan..."
"What if," replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to shield the words from public view?"