Romance Quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”

“It's a great shame, she thinks, that the heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, that it cannot know love without also knowing loss.”

“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.”

“I’ve watched hundreds of deed transfers take place right here on the steps of the Registry,” Michele mused. “At those moments of transfer, I’ve seen in the eyes of desperate sellers an emotional reconciliation of irrevocably relinquishing a homestead, a treasured dominion, willingly or otherwise. Perhaps all these deeds, Mr. Geoffrey…perhaps they, too, have their own soul, a predilection that would tell me more than what they say if only I had the capacity to ask.”

“Eccolo!” he exclaimed.”

“Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next.”