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.
BARBARA MERTZI 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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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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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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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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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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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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It’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.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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