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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Barbara Mertz

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
BARBARA MERTZ

Hate Sight Strong
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
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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Doors Mother Pain
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Criminals Fancy Masters
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
BARBARA MERTZ

Christian Half Lasts
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
BARBARA MERTZ

Cold Girl Manipulation
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
BARBARA MERTZ

Common Young Youth
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
BARBARA MERTZ

Arguing Thread Trying
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Idea Needs
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
BARBARA MERTZ

Children Feel Privacy

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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