Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon Quotes

“One, for instance, boasted a lovingly detailed watercolour of a dead robin, while on another a row of comical frogs paraded beneath umbrellas and, on another still, insects danced in a circle, wielding musical instruments and seemingly drunk.”
― James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon

“Above all else, I am curious to meet the extended Allerthorpe tribe. Large families intrigue me. They are stews of rivalry, jealousy, and long-held enmity, and in the wealthy ones those qualities are only amplified.”
― James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon

“Above all else, I am curius to meet the extended Allerthorpe tribe. Large families intrigue me. They are stews of rivalry, jealousy, and long-held enmity, and in the wealthy ones those qualities are only amplified.”
― James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon

“You have a way with a proverb, old friend, as befits a wordsmith of your calibre." Compliment? Or not? With Sherlock Holmes, it was hard to tell.”
― James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon

“Mankind is inherently inclined towards cooperation," Holmes said. It is how we create societies and moral consensus. We want to agree with one another, on the whole. Thus, if one of us insists a certain thing is true, and maintains his standpoint in the face of all opposition, others will eventually come around to his way of thinking.”
― James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon