I believe you would square off at Satan if he came around and inconvenienced you! - Elizabeth Peters

"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."

love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain,

"I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family."
"Very boring, Emerson."