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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

“And let me tell you something about Farfield police: they don’t give a good God damn.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“People don’t change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Paul taught me a person committed to silence can suggest importance, strength. So long as they’re a man, I mean. It’s not an option when you’re a girl, not unless you want people to think you’re a bitch.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the Royal Houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“In this sense, literary translation, as a labour of changing words, and changing the orders of words, is always and from the outset wrong: its wrongness is a way of indirectly stressing and restressing the rightness of the original words in their right and original order.”
― Kate Briggs, This Little Art

“How, in fact, the font does matter, or it can – likewise the timing and circumstances of my reading, the books I am reading the book with, the people I am talking to about it, who might make me think differently; the difference between reading a book for the first time and for the third.”
― Kate Briggs, This Little Art

“I looked across the fences to the expanse of green that was our neighbourhood. It looked like it went on forever, as if it were the whole world and nothing else existed.”
― Carrianne Leung, That Time I Loved You: Stories