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Edith: If you want to stay in London, be tough... Be tough! Live the life. But don't do it because you're looking for someone. Do it because you're looking for yourself.
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Enola Holmes: When looking to travel incognito, it's safest to travel as a widow. People are always anxious to avoid conversation about death. Widows scare them. And there's no better disguise than fear.
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Sherlock Holmes: Sometimes you must dangle your feet in the water in order to attract the sharks.
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Sherlock Holmes: [as a police officer tries to stop him from walking through Scotland Yard] Don't be ridiculous.
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Eudoria Holmes: Try to be excited, not disappointed at the possibilities of something new.
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[first lines]
Enola Holmes: Now, where to begin? The first thing you need to know is that my mother named me Enola.
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Enola Holmes: She was not an ordinary mother. She didn't teach me to string seashells or practice my embroidery. We did different things. Reading, science, sports, all sorts of exercise - both physical and mental. Mother said we were free to do anything at Ferndell... and be anyone.
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Sherlock Holmes: Enola.
Mycroft Holmes: My God. Look at you. You're in such a mess.
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Enola Holmes: She wouldn't like you in here. This is her private space.
Sherlock Holmes: Tell me, she at least saw that you had an education? She valued education.
Enola Holmes: She taught me herself. She made me read every book in Ferndell Hall's library. Shakespeare, Locke, and the encyclopedia, and Thackeray, and the essays of Mary Wollstonecraft. And I did it on my own account. For my own learning. Which, Mother said, was the best way to become a young... woman.
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Enola Holmes: I don't know what she wanted me to be.
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Mycroft Holmes: We have two problems, as I see it. One, finding a boarding school that is willing to take Enola on so she won't be a complete failure in this world. That, I am in the process of solving with the help of an old friend. And two... finding Mother.
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Enola Holmes: No! Please don't do this to me. Let me remain happy. I am happy here.
Mycroft Holmes: You are a young woman now, Enola. You need an education.
Enola Holmes: Test me on anything you think I need to know in order to be sufficient for this world.
Mycroft Holmes: If she taught you so well you wouldn't be standing in your undergarments in front of me, would you? You have no hope of making a husband in your current state.
Enola Holmes: I don't want a husband!
Mycroft Holmes: And that is another thing you need to have educated out of you.
[Enola kneels beside Sherlock]
Enola Holmes: Sherlock. Don't let him do this to me.
Sherlock Holmes: You are his ward.
Enola Holmes: Make me yours. Guide me. Teach me. For him, I am a nuisance. For you...
Sherlock Holmes: Enola. I'm sorry. It's out of my hands.
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Sherlock Holmes: You know, last I remember of you, you were quite a timid little thing. You had a pine cone wrapped in wool, dragged it with you everywhere you went - calling it Dash. Someone told you that Queen Victoria had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Dash, and you decided you wanted the same. We could never persuade you to put any trousers on. Your bottom was always bare. I think that's all the memories I have.
Enola Holmes: Thank you. If you could now forget them all.
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Enola Holmes: Why did you never write?
Sherlock Holmes: Would you have cared for my letters?
Enola Holmes: I have kept every clipping of every case of yours I could ever find.
Sherlock Holmes: That's flattering.
Enola Holmes: And, yet, it took our mother's disappearance to bring you home.
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Eudoria Holmes: There are two paths you can take, Enola. Yours... or the path others choose for you.
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Eudoria Holmes: Paint your own picture, Enola. Don't be thrown off course by other people. Especially men!
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Sherlock Holmes: Now, please put the teapot down. In your hands it is a mighty weapon.
[Edith puts the teapot on the table]
Sherlock Holmes: Thank you.
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Mycroft Holmes: I believe I explicitly told you to look for her.
Lestrade: You explicitly told me to look for a scrappy girl with no poise. This was a woman... with extreme poise.
Mycroft Holmes: There's a wild thing underneath. That, I assure you.
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Enola Holmes: You tickle me, Viscount Tewkesbury, you magnificent marquess of blooming Basilwether. You're a cleverer boy than I perhaps gave you credit for.
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The Dowager: England's true glory is what is. Do you see?
[Enola looks around at the forest in awe]
Enola Holmes: I can see much beauty.
The Dowager: Very sensible answer.
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Enola Holmes: I've come here because I've grown to like you more in your absence and because, as it turns out, your life is still in danger.
Tewkesbury: What has made you like me more?
[Tewkesbury picks up a flower from his stall]
Enola Holmes: Really? That is your question? Not 'who is trying to kill me'?
[Tewkesbury hands a flower to Enola]
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Edith: You haven't any hope of understanding any of this. You do know that?
Sherlock Holmes: Educate me as to why.
Edith: Because you don't know what it is to be without power. Politics doesn't interest you. Why?
Sherlock Holmes: Because it's fatally boring.
Edith: Because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well.
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Sherlock Holmes: Look for what's there, not what you want to be there.
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Sherlock Holmes: You're being emotional. It's understandable, but unnecessary.
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Enola Holmes: I don't need friends. I have my own company.
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Eudoria Holmes: You have to make some noise if you want to be heard.
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Sherlock Holmes: The choice is always yours. Whatever society may claim, it can't control you.
Enola Holmes Quotes
Extended Reading
