Remember, Remember Quotes

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“Holmes smiled faintly. “You are quite determined to shape me into some semblance of a normal human being.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“As I have always said, it is a mistake to allow matters of the heart to cloud one’s judgment or obscure one’s ability to think clearly. I bring up the issue merely so that, once acknowledged, it can be set aside.” I rubbed my forehead. I wondered whether other girls felt this way in conversing with their own parents: as though they were trying in vain to keep up with a racing steam engine that kept making violently sharp turns.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“I stared out the window, wondering what on earth had ever possessed me to confide in Sherlock Holmes. Actually, I had been hoping that my revealing my innermost thoughts and wishes to Holmes would lead to his being more comfortable with sharing his own. I should have tried squeezing lemonade from a rock. I would probably have been blessed with greater success.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“The hallway was unlighted, the only illumination coming from a barred and grimy window set high in the wall behind us. I had never been to the holding cells in a police station before, but everything about this place seemed to fairly ooze desperation and despair.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“thinking machine”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“The route that Becky takes me on is convoluted enough to make an entire fleet of cartographers beg for mercy.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember

“It crosses my mind to wonder whether anyone has ever compared his speaking habits to the animals on the ark. His statements seem to frequently march two-by-two.”
― Anna Elliott, Remember, Remember