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 MERTZIn the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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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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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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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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