“I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.”
“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”
“I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.”
“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
“I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.”
“But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.”