Quotes from Elizabeth Peters

Thunder in the Sky Twelfth

Someone was certainly guilty of something, however, and it behooved us to take all possible precautions.

which he needs time and privacy. What better way of keeping us in Cairo

Prejudice of one sort or another seems to be a universal human weakness. Few

But why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!

Mary wasn't the only one who'd gone around the bend in the last few weeks. Or had Larry always been this way, determinedly unconscious of the deadly results of his "harmless" schemes? Maybe they were all like that, the presidents and chairmen and commanding generals who sat in their fancy offices and gave orders to "engage targets" or "cut the work force." They never saw the suffering, bleeding bodies those orders affected.

Baskerville Expedition House

It went on raining. Day after day. Three days, to be precise. I didn't mind. At that point I'd have considered sunlight a personal insult.

I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus... A a-stinct winocowus.

Cats cannot be held accountable for their actions, because they have no morals to speak of.

Bah,' said Emerson. 'It relieved my feelings, but it had not the

for, failing to capture the attention of a waiter, I hooked one of them by the arm and ordered a whiskey and soda. The buzz of conversation

to be kept a secret from the military

Five years of marriage have taught me that even if one is unamused by the (presumed) wit of one's spouse, one does not say so. Some concessions to temperament are necessary if the marital state is to flourish. And I must confess that in most respects the state agrees with me. Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

responsible for some of the most

Much you know about it," Susan said disagreeably. "James Bond eats all the time. He thinks he's a gourmet or something. He gives people karate chops if they shake his martinis ten times instead of twelve. Not that I blame him. I mean, being chased and scared and beaten up uses up a lot of energy. If I ever write a suspense story, I'll have my people eating lots.

Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. "Dakin and

Poetry,' I continued, 'is too sensational for young minds.

I do wish you would not be so precipitate; just look at you, you are bleeding all over the antiquities

That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board.

The world is full of people who can't think straight.

I was not unsympathetic with John's mood, but I did hope he was not about to transfer his affections from Charity to the mummy. Charity had not encouraged him, but there can be no more unresponsive recipient of love than a woman who has been dead for seventeen hundred years, give or take a century.

Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma'am. Like, an emergency, you know." Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted the stumbling

Schmidt is a canny little kobold.