Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.