The Seventh Sinner Quotes

“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? But stereotypes are awfully misleading. there are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. Any more than any other profession.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Seventh Sinner

“Suddenly, without preliminary fluttering or blinking, the closed eyes opened. They were a true, clear green, an unusual color for human eyes. They looked translucent, like seawater, and they focused on Jean with an expression of concentrated malevolence made all the more alarming by contrast with the placidity of the face in which they were set. The woman’s compressed lips parted. “Here, too, O Lord?” a plaintive voice inquired.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Seventh Sinner

“Half the trouble in human relations arises from expecting human beings to conform to a single one-dimensional image. We are all hydra-headed monsters. But most people never learn that.”
― Elizabeth Peters , The Seventh Sinner