ali (hiatus) garcia

“Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.”
― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

“From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet