Ellis Peters Quotes


If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.


Citations

Peters, Ellis. The Virgin in the Ice. Macmillan, 1982.

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Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters
  • Born: September 28, 1913
  • Died: October 14, 1995
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author

Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM, also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.