Martin Edwards Quotes & Sayings

Upon my word, Watson!" said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, "I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry." "You know," I answered with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you. — Martin Edwards

Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me. — Martin Edwards

The man who has the courage to say he is wrong has to face the worst hatred; the hatred of those who think he is right. — Martin Edwards

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever. — Martin Edwards

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been
she realized now
a huge part of his appeal ... — Martin Edwards

Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all. — Martin Edwards

Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile. — Martin Edwards

One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide. — Martin Edwards

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book. — Martin Edwards

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute. — Martin Edwards

Fantastique, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbat'. "Though — Martin Edwards

He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions. — Martin Edwards

For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read. — Martin Edwards

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation. — Martin Edwards

She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room. — Martin Edwards

Mystery*File website, have revealed that Farjeon wrote no — Martin Edwards

He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past. — Martin Edwards

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge. — Martin Edwards

The emptiness of your knowing everything about things you want to change, can't change anything. — Martin Edwards

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential. — Martin Edwards