“The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.”
―
Brittany Cavallaro,
A Study in Charlotte
“Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“I began wondering if there was some kind of Watsonian guide for the care and keeping of Holmeses.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Reading took me away from myself, so I tried to be reading all the time.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie
“I wanted the two of us to be complicated together, to be difficult and engrossing and blindingly brilliant.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“It appears that I am willing to put with many things for the sake of Jamie Watson . . . I can tell he’s hiding a laugh when he curls his mouth in like he’s eating a lemon. Sometimes I say terrible things just to see him do it . . . He flagellates himself rather a lot, as this narrative shows. He shouldn’t. He is lovely and warm and quite brave and a bit heedless of his own safety and by any measure the best man I’ve ever known. I’ve discovered that I am very clever when it comes to caring about him, and so I will continue to do so.Later today I will ask him to spend the rest of winter break at my family’s home in Sussex . . . Watson will say yes, I’m sure of it. He always says yes to me. – Charlotte” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August
“I don’t need someone to fight for me. I can fight for myself.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I hardly know what I am now—muscle, maybe, or just memory. Perhaps just the will to keep going.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August
“You have my implicit forgiveness, you know, even when you’re driving me crazy.” . . .“Jamie.”“Charlotte.”“Do come home soon. It won’t be London without you.”“You never knew me in London.”“I know. I intend to fix that.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“You really should take up boxing, or fencing—”“Fencing? What century are you from?”“—or solving crimes.”“Are you prescribing me your company, Doctor?”“Detective, you can read me like a book.” She lifted her glass, and I clinked mine against it.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Jamie Watson is far smarter than you think. He isn’t my accomplice. He’s no one’s accomplice. And he isn’t guilty of anything.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Being a woman with a contrary opinion does not render me hysterical.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie
“I felt like I was being pulled through a dark, dank wardrobe into some boozy Narnia.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“What do normal people talk about?” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“He put it into drive and turned on the headlights. And there she was, standing in their white glow.Holmes’s skin was smoked black from the explosion, her hair flecked with snow. Her violin dangled from her fingers. She opened her mouth, and I saw her say my name.I was out of the car in a heartbeat, and in the next, she was in my arms . . . “You’re alive,” I murmured, tucking my head over hers. “I’m so sorry.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“I began wondering if there was some kind of Watsonian guide for the care and keeping of Holmeses.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Reading took me away from myself, so I tried to be reading all the time.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie
“I wanted the two of us to be complicated together, to be difficult and engrossing and blindingly brilliant.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“It appears that I am willing to put with many things for the sake of Jamie Watson . . . I can tell he’s hiding a laugh when he curls his mouth in like he’s eating a lemon. Sometimes I say terrible things just to see him do it . . . He flagellates himself rather a lot, as this narrative shows. He shouldn’t. He is lovely and warm and quite brave and a bit heedless of his own safety and by any measure the best man I’ve ever known. I’ve discovered that I am very clever when it comes to caring about him, and so I will continue to do so.Later today I will ask him to spend the rest of winter break at my family’s home in Sussex . . . Watson will say yes, I’m sure of it. He always says yes to me. – Charlotte” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August
“I don’t need someone to fight for me. I can fight for myself.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I hardly know what I am now—muscle, maybe, or just memory. Perhaps just the will to keep going.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August
“You have my implicit forgiveness, you know, even when you’re driving me crazy.” . . .“Jamie.”“Charlotte.”“Do come home soon. It won’t be London without you.”“You never knew me in London.”“I know. I intend to fix that.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“You really should take up boxing, or fencing—”“Fencing? What century are you from?”“—or solving crimes.”“Are you prescribing me your company, Doctor?”“Detective, you can read me like a book.” She lifted her glass, and I clinked mine against it.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Jamie Watson is far smarter than you think. He isn’t my accomplice. He’s no one’s accomplice. And he isn’t guilty of anything.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“Being a woman with a contrary opinion does not render me hysterical.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie
“I felt like I was being pulled through a dark, dank wardrobe into some boozy Narnia.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“What do normal people talk about?” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
“He put it into drive and turned on the headlights. And there she was, standing in their white glow.Holmes’s skin was smoked black from the explosion, her hair flecked with snow. Her violin dangled from her fingers. She opened her mouth, and I saw her say my name.I was out of the car in a heartbeat, and in the next, she was in my arms . . . “You’re alive,” I murmured, tucking my head over hers. “I’m so sorry.” ― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
