# Quote — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

> Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

- Author: [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle.md)
- Book: [The Hound of the Baskervilles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles.md)
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> You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

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