"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

"Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point"
— Elizabeth Peters

""Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth."

"I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it.""
— J.D. Robb (Salvation in Death)

"I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! "
— Elizabeth Peters (The Ape Who Guards the Balance)

"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 Peters (He Shall Thunder in the Sky)