Elizabeth Peters

“The room was so neat and tidy it made me feel quite depressed...I do not allow myself to repine about what cannot…

— Elizabeth Peters

“He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, 'I love you, Mother.' He took my hand and kissed it, and folded…

— Elizabeth Peters

“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent.…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter…

— Elizabeth Peters

“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Stop," he ordered, in a low but compelling voice. "Do not take another step, or I fire! Dash it," he added vexedly,…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Have you caught cold?' 'It would appear so.' 'You could give it to Margaret,' Ramses suggested. His uncle turned the tinted spectacles…

— Elizabeth Peters

“...DAMNATION!' No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is…

— Elizabeth Peters

“What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?' 'She thought she saw a skull,'…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma’am. Like, an emergency, you know.” Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted…

— Elizabeth Peters

“They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine.…

— Elizabeth Peters

“...I felt obligated by friendship as well as duty to make certain they were comfortably housed. Since men seem to measure comfort…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“I felt about him as I might feel about a friendly, dimwitted dog that had decided to move in with us. He…

— Elizabeth Peters

“You know how your eyes can deceive you at times--how a group of shapes and shadows can take on a certain form…

— Elizabeth Peters

“You don't sound like a librarian," she said. "I'm on vacation," Jacqueline laughed. "Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there?…

— Elizabeth Peters

“which he needs time and privacy. What better way of keeping us in Cairo,”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Someone was certainly guilty of something, however, and it behooved us to take all possible precautions.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“I lost Davey twice, retrieving him on the second occasion from the interior of a huge granite sarcophagus. I was tempted to…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to…

— Elizabeth Peters