Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King
Laurie R. Kingis an American author best known for her detective fiction...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 September 1952
CountryAlgeria
fire-of-love fire thrown
Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.
believe taken thinking
Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache.
two smoking sitting
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe...
husband devil relief
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
dark giving curiosity
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.
madness turmoil centre
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
mind insult argument
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
phrases wells
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
book pages
I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...
shoes differences pairs
It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.
thinking knowing people
I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.
war world eras
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
sweet children home
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.
mean essence fire
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.