“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of Farouk's death. As he met her unblinking gaze he was reminded of one of Nefret's more vivid descriptions. 'When she's angry, her eyes look like polished steel balls.' That's done it, he thought. She's made up her mind to get David and me out of this if she has to take on every German and Turkish agent in the Middle East.”
“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of Farouk's death. As he met her unblinking gaze he was reminded of one of Nefret's more vivid descriptions. 'When she's angry, her eyes look like polished steel balls.' That's done it, he thought. She's made up her mind to get David and me out of this if she has to take on every German and Turkish agent in the Middle East.”
Elizabeth Peters
“My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?”
Elizabeth Peters“I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose”
Elizabeth Peters“Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anything life has taught me, it is that there is no idea so absurd that someone will not accept it as truth, and no action so bizarre that it will not be justified in the eyes of a true believer.”
Elizabeth Peters“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”
Elizabeth Peters“In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)”
Elizabeth Peters, The Deeds of the Disturber“Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!”
Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky“If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.”
Elizabeth Peters, The Falcon at the Portal“Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.”
Elizabeth Peters, The Falcon at the Portal“...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.”
Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank“I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.”
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