The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Book 1)

by Laurie R. King

The subject is essentially the same; it is the eyes and the hands of the artist that change.

sleep was a concern of the body and of convenience, he declared, not of the clock.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool as well were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.”

“That’s what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”

“When faced with the unthinkable,” I said shakily, “one chooses the merely impossible.”