I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
Elizabeth PetersTag: humor women amelia-peabody
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
Elizabeth PetersTag: men women amelia-peabody
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
Elizabeth PetersTag: amelia-peabody
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
Elizabeth PetersTag: amelia-peabody lia-emerson
As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of Farouk's death. As he met her unblinking gaze he was reminded of one of Nefret's more vivid descriptions. 'When she's angry, her eyes look like polished steel balls.' That's done it, he thought. She's made up her mind to get David and me out of this if she has to take on every German and Turkish agent in the Middle East.
Elizabeth PetersTag: motherhood amelia-peabody ww1 ramses
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
Elizabeth PetersTag: men compliment amelia-peabody
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
Elizabeth PetersTag: amelia-peabody
His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.
Elizabeth PetersTag: amelia-peabody
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...
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