Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.