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.
BARBARA MERTZIt’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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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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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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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to 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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