55 Quotes by Peter Abrahams

You’re born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it’s so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, what beautiful hair, or get a load of those baby blues,’ or something nice that keeps you thinking you’re still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn’t stand it.

In ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.

The power of suggestion. Maybe everything human ended up being subjective and nothing could be known for sure.

Guilt was dread without the tightness in the chest part, just the weight in the gut.

The bigger the crime, Holmes said, the more obvious the motive. That was one of his basic rules.

Sometimes fear helps, he said. Like fear of flunking a test, so you study. But when bad’s going to happen for sure, fear only hurts.

At that moment, Ingrid remembered ‘The Five Orange Pips’ and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after.