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• I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

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• I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

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• You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.

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• I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.

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• The entire household had been aroused, and a good number of them had joined in, shouting questions and brandishing various deadly instruments.

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• He smiled affably at the burglar, a burly fellow whom he continued to hold with one hand, as easily as if he had been a child.

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• I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.

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• I knew every line of his long body and every curl on his disheveled black head. I’d just never seen him before. you know what I’m trying to say, don’t you? The change is in the heart.

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• You know how your eyes can deceive you at times–how a group of shapes and shadows can take on a certain form and then shift into another? It wasn’t really like that; there was no physical change in him, he was exactly the same as he’d always been.

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• A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

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•  They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

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• I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge.

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• I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder.

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• There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

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• Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

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• He continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.

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• I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her?

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• There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

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• If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask.

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• It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

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Elizabeth Peters (79)

Birth:	29th September, 1927
Death:	8th August, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Barbara Mertz was born in Canton, Illinois, USA. She was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. She was graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1947 and a master's degree in 1950. In 1952 she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Under her own name she is the author of Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs, A Popular history of Ancient Egypt and Red Land, Black Land, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Under her pseudonym Barbara Michaels, she wrote twenty nine novels of suspense. As Elizabeth Peters, she produced thirty seven mystery-suspense novels, many of them set in Egypt and the Middle East. She was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998. In 2003, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention.

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