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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Barbara Mertz

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Fashion Helen Peculiar
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
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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Done Kissing Mistake
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Character Knowing Writing
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking

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