"as roads go, the road home is as good as any."

--

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.258, Head of Zeus

Ellis Peters

“My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening nowâ€”our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.”
“They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.”
“You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song. You can't do that. You got to know the difference between stealing from being cool to the band and paying them what they're deserved.”
“Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.”
“You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.”
“I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.”
“I play a detective, very close to myself actually.”
“No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.”

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