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720c60b
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Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week." Carl Costanza - Hot Six"
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Janet Evanovich |
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26111b7
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My sex life is okay." "Yeah," Morelli said. "But sometimes it's fun to have a partner."
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joe-morelli
stephanie-plum
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Janet Evanovich |
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b835a66
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What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum"
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Janet Evanovich |
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43cfacd
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That's how you tell what a man's really made of. It's one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin' after a woman when she's shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.
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Janet Evanovich |
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2d0711a
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I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.
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Janet Evanovich |
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8f56acc
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Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into th..
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Janet Evanovich |
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bd82d8d
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You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said."
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mystery
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Janet Evanovich |
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8428366
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Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it."
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ab12dc6
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For the most part, Ranger had a consistent personality. He wasn't a guy who wasted a lot of unnecessary energy and effort. He moved and he spoke with an efficient ease that was more animal than human. And he didn't telegraph his emotions. Unless Ranger had his tongue in my mouth it was usually impossible to tell what he was thinking. But every now and then, Ranger would step out of the box, and like a little treat that was doled out on spec..
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Janet Evanovich |
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Of course it's your fault," Grandma said. "You must be doing something wrong, if you know what I mean. Maybe you need to buy a book that tells you how to do it. I hear there are books out there with pictures and everything. I saw one in the store the other day. It was called A Sex Guide for Dummies."
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Janet Evanovich |
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cfd698b
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If anything happened to you, I'd be so destroyed they'd have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.
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love
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Janet Evanovich |
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8bd981a
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As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.
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Janet Evanovich |
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ade4631
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A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.
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Janet Evanovich |
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907155f
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Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now." Valerie - To the Nines"
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Janet Evanovich |
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95b86a5
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionally mature.
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Janet Evanovich |
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4c8185f
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Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?" "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said. "Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me." "That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not." "
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Janet Evanovich |
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e9ecaa5
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On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.
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luck
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Janet Evanovich |
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b32ef2f
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You don't have a drop of paint on you," I said. "Why is that?" Ranger smiled, liking that he hadn't gotten hit. "I guess they were hunting pussy." "But I walked into the Motherfuckers room." "Yeah, but babe, your clearly pussy."
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Janet Evanovich |
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49a7f1a
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Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.
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Janet Evanovich |
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72a1bfa
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I wanted to tell you I....uh, like you." Shit. I chickened out! What was it with me that I couldn't say the big L word? I am such a dope. Morelli sighed into the phone. "You are such a dope."
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Janet Evanovich |
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6fc3445
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I'm going back to bed," Grandma said when Mooner and Dougie left. "This doesn't look too interesting. I liked it better the other night when you were on the floor with the bounty hunter." Morelli gave me the same kind of look Desi always gave Lucy when she'd just done something incredibly stupid. "It's a long story," I said. "I bet."
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Janet Evanovich |
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6154e60
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Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. "Babe," he finally said. "Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?" "Yes. It's on the same block as his funeral home." "That's the one. I'm going in to look for someone. If you don't hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check." "Is this ..
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Janet Evanovich |
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35d9c51
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About that proposal, cupcake..." Morelli"
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Janet Evanovich |
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Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.
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Janet Evanovich |
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Morelli smiled. "It could have been Jenny Ragucci. That makes much more sense. I had good luck with sluts." I looked over at him. All in the past," Morelli said. "I'm a cupcake man now." Whoa, dude," Mooner said. "That's so, like, cosmic."
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Janet Evanovich |
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eb46051
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I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.
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Janet Evanovich |
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5c90404
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It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car."
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Janet Evanovich |
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bf23688
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My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing."
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Janet Evanovich |
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2bb526d
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In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.
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stephanie-plum
mystery
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Janet Evanovich |
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ec21c7d
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You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet"
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Janet Evanovich |
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My Spanish is limited to burrito and taco,
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Janet Evanovich |
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they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August
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Janet Evanovich |
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I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel. "It was all because of the shower gel," I said. Morelli's eyes narrowed. "Shower gel?" I made a major effort not to sigh. "Long story. You probably don't want to hear it."
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Janet Evanovich |
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0f07ca6
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A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I'd stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he'd take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.
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Janet Evanovich |
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3a9ce0c
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Saved by the grandma" Ranger"
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Janet Evanovich |
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Were really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way."
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stephanie
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Janet Evanovich |
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ffc4d0c
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You should see me work my magic in leather" Ranger"
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Janet Evanovich |
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He's sort of a homeless horse," I said. "I'm leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I won't be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I don't want that horse in my apartment." "Who would put a horse in an apartment? That's dumb." "Where's the horse staying now?" "My apartment." "I can always count on you to brighten my day," Ranger said. And he disconnected."
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Janet Evanovich |
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68589f6
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Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.
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Janet Evanovich |
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I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.
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Janet Evanovich |
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fa723a8
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Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?"
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humor
granmda-mazur
stephanie-plum
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Janet Evanovich |
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ea1eec8
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That might work," I said. "I'm good at faking it." This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us. "You didn't mean... ?" Morelli asked. "No. Of course not." "Never?" "Maybe once." His eyes narrowed. "Once?" "It's all that comes to mind. It was the time we were late for your Uncle Spud's birthday party." "I remember that. That was great. You're telling me you faked it?" "We were late! I couldn't concentrate. It seemed..
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Janet Evanovich |
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38e22b9
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I finished my soup and bread and helped myself to a handful of cookies from the cookie jar, glancing at Morelli, wondering at his lean body. He'd eaten two bowls of soup, half a loaf of bread slathered in butter, and seven cookies. I'd counted. He saw me staring and raised his eyebrows in silent question. "I suppose you work out," I said, mores statement than question. "I run when I can. Do some weights." He grinned. "Morelli men have go..
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Janet Evanovich |
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94e38b9
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I can't wear this," she said from inside the dressing room. "It's too small." "Let's see," Nick said. "Come on out." "Get me a bigger size. A lot bigger." Nick opened the door and looked in at Kate. "Whoa," he said on a gush of air. His pupils dilated to the point where his brown eyes were almost totally black, and Kate decided the dress must look better than she'd first thought. "Well?" she asked. "I think I'm in love," Nick said. "But the..
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nick-fox
shopping
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Janet Evanovich |