Shadows Over Baker Street Quotes

“Whether a man bows down to God or Mammon or to Cthulhu in his dark house at R’lyeh is no affair of mine . . . until he sheds one drop of blood not his own in his deity’s name. Then God have mercy upon him, for I shall not.”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“Goodly intentions are no use without goodly sums of money, Watson.”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“There are stranger seas, you see, than the seven on which we sail. There are greater oceans than the five we have named. There are seas of infinity and oceans of eternity, and their salt is the bitterest brine that creation can contain. The dreams you know are but phantoms . . . ghosts with no more substance than rhyme or reason . . . but there are dreams of the flesh, Mr. Holmes. I have done nothing of which I need to be ashamed, and yet . . . I cannot help but dream.”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” —H. P. Lovecraft,
“The Call of Cthulhu”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“We can never know everything,” Holmes said, “but I fear that everything knows us.”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“She was called Victoria because she had beaten us in battle seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen because the human mouth was not shaped to say her true name.”
― Michael Reaves, Shadows Over Baker Street

“Murray regarded all hardship as a test of character. To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.”
― Steven-Elliot Altman, Shadows Over Baker Street

“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.”
― Steven-Elliot Altman, Shadows Over Baker Street