(Source: thedaysthatnevercame)
I like to watch you dance.
I need a man who thinks it’s right when it’s so wrong; right on the limits where we know we both belong tonight.
(Source: ourfinalproblem)
If a detailed account of that silent contest could be written, it would take its place as the most brilliant bit of thrust-and-parry work in the history of detection.
(Source: ourfinalproblem)
It has been an intellectual treat to me to see the way in which you have grappled with this affair, and I say, unaffectedly, that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take any extreme measure. You smile, sir, but I assure you that it really would.
(Source: ourfinalproblem)
For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts — forgery cases, robberies, murders — I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted. For years I have endeavored to break through the veil which shrouded it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty, of mathematical celebrity.
(Source: ourfinalproblem)
If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.
(Source: ourfinalproblem)
