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93b0dda
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A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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0b82682
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Everything outside of here is vulnerable, but this tower, this room, is where we can make a stand if we have to. This is our Alamo." "Everybody died at the Alamo. What's the midway, the Little Big Horn?" Ethan looked at her, exasperated. She shrugged. "I'm just saying that ifyou want to rally the troops, avoid the A word."
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demon
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Jennifer Crusie |
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51eb53b
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Does it ever occur to you not to sleep with women?" "No," Riley said."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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192bfb3
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Why are you offering me ten thousand dollars a month for babysitting? You didn't pay the nannies that. It's ridiculous. For ten thousand a month, you should not only get child care, you should get your house cleaned, your laundry done, your tires rotated, and if I were you, I'd insist on nightly blow jobs. Did you think I wouldn't notice that you're still trying to keep your thumb on me?
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blow-job
child-care
nanny
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Jennifer Crusie |
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879c3cf
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What about the check?" Suze said. "Pay it," he called back. "This is your party." "I don't like him," Suze said to Margie. Margie slid out of the booth. "Think of him as a growth experience." "Oh, good, I've been wanting one of those," Suze said and tossed a twenty on the table. It was too much, but she was in a hurry to steal a dog."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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ddea10a
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He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would." "Marlene?" Nell said. "I'm not calling anything SugarPie," Riley said. "That's obscene."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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cab4389
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He won't say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him.
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death
rejection
dating
die
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Jennifer Crusie |
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2f4aee6
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Sorry. I forgot your lust for small talk. And how have you been in the fourteen hours since we last spoke, eight of which you were sleeping?
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humor
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Jennifer Crusie |
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b0b97a7
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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b498563
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Quinn talked with her entire body: arms, eyes, shoulders, mouth. She was performance art, so alive that sometimes he argued with her just so he could watch her flush and gesture.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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6546a45
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I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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444fb2c
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The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.
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lying
lies
life
rule
cynical
rules
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Jennifer Crusie |
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16cce18
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I even yelled at you last night." Phin eased up. "For which I apologize." "It was kind of nice," Sophie said. "At least you know I was there." "Oh hell, Spohie, I always know you're there." Phin rolled twords her on one hip, and Sophie felt felt a flare of hope, but he was just digging something out of his back pocket. "Here." He weld out an emerald-cut diamond ring the size of her head. "Marry me, Julie Ann. Ruin the rest of my life." "Hel..
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Jennifer Crusie |
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1c28b82
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At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice. "You know, you used to be peaceful," he grumbled. "I can't believe you were ever married." Kate said, as she cracked the can open. "What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?"
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marriage
men-and-women
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Jennifer Crusie |
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0d1019b
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Lane and Zack got hitched. So while it might not be very punk rock to be too young to drink legally at your own wedding, it's certainly handy to have the thumbs up from God to get laid.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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55ed6dc
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The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch.
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women-s-rights
women
complaints
sneaky
women-s-lib
liberation
women-s-liberation
tricks
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Jennifer Crusie |
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7dd10a1
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If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...
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woman
silence
shut-up
perfect
quiet
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Jennifer Crusie |
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a32291e
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No, this wasn't just about sex, but for the next hour or so, it was going to be mostly about sex.
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sex
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Jennifer Crusie |
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2e61010
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Life is more than great sex and a nice car." "Well, yeah. But not a lot more."
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sex
life
meaning-of-life
cars
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Jennifer Crusie |
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657bae5
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Allie put her chin on his shoulder to look into the carton. He had great shoulders and Chinese food. At the moment, he was the perfect man.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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60226e3
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Everyone Lies.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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00a050e
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Luke is the father of the heart, Richard is the father of the mind, and Christopher is the father of the body.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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05e203d
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What are we going to do with the body?" She had visions of dragging it into the swamp, whispering, "Here, gator, gator," and she made a little sound of distress at the thought."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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f1f4bda
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Jake ignored him and went on. "If I ever do hook up with anybody again - and I sincerely doubt that I will, so wipe that hopeful look off your face - it will be with someone who thinks that being with somebody who mows lawns is her idea of heaven on earth and who will do exactly what I tell her to do and love it." "I think Donna Reed is dead," Will said."
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humor
men-and-women
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Jennifer Crusie |
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b9cfa27
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He turned down the street to Emilio's, trying to remember what "the edge of chaos" meant. It was something about flipping a coin, something about the edge being the moment when the coin was in the air. The point at which the system was pure potential, about to choose a path. Or something about a pile of sand, adding sand a grain at a time, and the edge of chaos being the point at which the critical grain landed and the pile either shifted o..
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Jennifer Crusie |
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ca4b32a
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I'm fine," Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better." "Bad deduction," Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now."
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men-and-women
logic
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Jennifer Crusie |
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b722896
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I'm stuck in the old me, and I don't know how to get out. I just know the old me isn't the real me anymore.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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4ac699a
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You don't believe in unconditional love. Neither does Alex. So you both threw away the best thing you ever had because you didn't believe in each other or yourselves.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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5b4a47b
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Lee stood in front of the class the first day and said, "Anybody who makes fun of romance fiction is making fun of Jane Austen, and anybody who makes fun of Jane Austen answers to me." Why yes, I would walk across broken glass for that man. Why do you ask?"
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Jennifer Crusie |
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1fdbb58
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Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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1ed4ee4
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I'm thirty-four." "You don't look thirty-four." "That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman."
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marriage
youth
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Jennifer Crusie |
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7a989ab
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You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together." "I am," Jake said, turning back to the lake. "Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it." "Is that why you gave them up?" Will asked, sympathetically. "Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?"
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sex
men-and-women
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Jennifer Crusie |
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8e804a9
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Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you."
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humor
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Jennifer Crusie |
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99fc146
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Who was the moron on the phone?" "Carl Avery," Kate said. "A long-standing client and potential felon."
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humor
crime
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Jennifer Crusie |
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15fff69
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You're planning on being disappointed, you'd be disappointed if you weren't disappointed, your whole world view depends on men disappointing you. Well, that's just cowardly.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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af11054
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Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt."
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morality
sinning
sins
morals
values
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Jennifer Crusie |
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8cb1130
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Paris is Rory without Lorelai's influence to draw her out of her books and into the wider world.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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8d2c51d
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He leaned on the bar. "I'm Tony. And you owe me." Okay, here we go, Liza thought, and leaned on the bar, too, mirroring him. "I owe you?" "Yes." He grinned at her. "Because of chaos theory." Liza shook her head. "Chaos theory." He moved closer to her. "Chaos theory says that complex dynamical systems become unstable because of disturbances in their environments after which a strange attractor draws the trajectory of the stress." Liza lo..
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first-meetings
pick-up-lines
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Jennifer Crusie |
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6b6435f
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Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
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lying
lies
humanity
cynical
lips
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Jennifer Crusie |
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46533e4
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Mitch woke up the next morning the way he always did: badly.
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wake
waking-up
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Jennifer Crusie |
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041a107
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You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.
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sins-needles-sinning
vice
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Jennifer Crusie |
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4303cdc
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She lives in the feminist "wishful-thinking world," as the Village Voice called it, dreamed up by creator Amy Sherman Palladino, where single moms raise brilliant daughters and men are nothing more than trifling distractions. I live in a post-feminist world that kicked in after the advent of Gilmore Girls, a place where Maureen Dowd asks Are Men Necessary? and we answer, "Not really." Modern girls may not talk as fast as the Gilmore girls o..
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Jennifer Crusie |
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3e6c223
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Tu es inoubliable. Tu vois ? Meme pas besoin de repeter apres toi pour dire ca. Et maintenant, est-ce que je peux vous faire l'amour , s'il vous plait, madame ?
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Jennifer Crusie |
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16942f7
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So, Mr. Shane, you felt you had the right to come down here and bespoil my crime scene because ..." He raised his eyebrows, waiting for an answer. "I thought he might need assistance," Shane lied. "And the untoward angle of his neck did not tell you that he was beyond any earthly assistance you might render?" "I'm not a doctor, sir," Shane said. "Neither are you a miracle worker, son," Xavier said. "Should you find any other bodies in my ju..
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Jennifer Crusie |