Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
BARBARA MERTZIt is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for 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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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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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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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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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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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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? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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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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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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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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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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