“There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.”

—  Elizabeth Peters, The Ape Who Guards the Balance

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American author and egyptologist 1927–2013

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