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Laurie R. King
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http://www.goodreads.com/profile/LaurieRKing
born
September 19, 1952
gender
female
place of birth
United States
website
genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Gay & Lesbian
about this author
Edgar-winning mystery writer Laurie R. King writes series and standalone novels. Newest is historical thriller Touchstone. In her Mary Russell series, a brilliant teen becomes student, then partner to Sherlock Holmes. [Excerpt of The Beekeeper's Apprentice] The Kate Martinelli series follows an SFPD detective's cases on a female Rembrandt, a holy fool, and more. [Excerpt of A Grave Talent]
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combine editionsavg rating: 3.99 | 9014 ratings | 19 distinct works
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.21 — 1396 ratings — published 1996 17 editions |
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O Jerusalem (Mary Russell Novels (Paperback)) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.07 — 738 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.04 — 725 ratings — published 1996 13 editions |
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Locked Rooms (Mary Russell Novels (Paperback)) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.14 — 603 ratings — published 2006 7 editions |
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A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads author!) avg rating 3.91 — 622 ratings — published 2001 12 editions |
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quotes by Laurie R. King
"Eccentricty had flowered into madness."
— Laurie R. King (The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell))
— Laurie R. King (The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell))
""Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!"
"Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her life to the contemplation of a God in whom she only marginally believes."
I felt stunned, as if she had struck me in the diaphragm. She looked down at me, trying to measure the effect of her words.
"Mary, you believe in the power that the idea of God has on the human mind. You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation. What you balk as it believing the evidence of your eyes, that God can reach out and touch a single human life in a concrete way." She smiled a sad, sad smile. "You mustn't be so cold, Mary. If you are, all you will see is a cold God, cold friends, cold love. God is not cold-never cold. God sears with heat, not ice, the heat of a thousand suns, heat that inflames but does not consume. You need warmth, Mary-you, Mary, need it. You fear it, you flirt with it, you imagine that you can stand in its rays and retain your cold intellectual attitude towards it. You imagine that you can love with your brain. Mary, oh my dear Mary, you sit in the hall and listen to me like some wild beast staring at a campfire, unable to leave, fearful of losing your freedom if you come any closer. It won't consume you; I won't capture you. Love does not do either. It only brings life. Please, Mary, don't let yourself be tied up by the bonds of cold academia."
Her words, the power of her conviction, broke over me like a great wave, inundating me, robbing me of breath, and, as they receded in the room, they pulled hard at me to folllow. I struggled to keep my footing against the wash of Margery's vision, and only when it began to lose its strength, dissipated against the silence in the room, was I seized by a sudden terror at the nearness of my escape."
— Laurie R. King (A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell))
"Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her life to the contemplation of a God in whom she only marginally believes."
I felt stunned, as if she had struck me in the diaphragm. She looked down at me, trying to measure the effect of her words.
"Mary, you believe in the power that the idea of God has on the human mind. You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation. What you balk as it believing the evidence of your eyes, that God can reach out and touch a single human life in a concrete way." She smiled a sad, sad smile. "You mustn't be so cold, Mary. If you are, all you will see is a cold God, cold friends, cold love. God is not cold-never cold. God sears with heat, not ice, the heat of a thousand suns, heat that inflames but does not consume. You need warmth, Mary-you, Mary, need it. You fear it, you flirt with it, you imagine that you can stand in its rays and retain your cold intellectual attitude towards it. You imagine that you can love with your brain. Mary, oh my dear Mary, you sit in the hall and listen to me like some wild beast staring at a campfire, unable to leave, fearful of losing your freedom if you come any closer. It won't consume you; I won't capture you. Love does not do either. It only brings life. Please, Mary, don't let yourself be tied up by the bonds of cold academia."
Her words, the power of her conviction, broke over me like a great wave, inundating me, robbing me of breath, and, as they receded in the room, they pulled hard at me to folllow. I struggled to keep my footing against the wash of Margery's vision, and only when it began to lose its strength, dissipated against the silence in the room, was I seized by a sudden terror at the nearness of my escape."
— Laurie R. King (A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell))
"The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images."
— Laurie R. King (The Beekeeper's Apprentice)
— Laurie R. King (The Beekeeper's Apprentice)
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