115 Quotes by Barbara Mertz

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.