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I swear," Nell said, walking faster, "you're looking at a life of hamburger and no yelling." She held the dachshund closer, and it sighed this time and put its head on her arm, and she stopped to look down into its eyes. "Hello," she said, and SugarPie stared back, pathetic and wide-eyed in the glow from the streetlight, her eyelashes fluttering like a Southern belle confronted by a Yankee."
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Anthony watched him, dumbfounded, and then turned to Lucy. "What have you done with Zack's brain?" Lucy stood to follow Zack. "What brain? I don't think he has one. I think he's just one giant exposed nerve ending. I swear sometimes at night, I can hear his neurons snapping like popcorn."
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love
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Zack?" Anthony's voice was suddenly serious. "You know, it's not a great idea to seduce a woman you're protecting. All kidding aside, do you want me to send Matthews over?" "Who?" "Junior." "I will shoot him on sight," Zack said and hung up so he could follow Lucy into the kitchen."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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2e11c00
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If you're going to have an asthma attack in the surf, I strongly recommend you do so in Nantucket.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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7d56f28
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The thing about love is, you don't get to choose," Suze said. "You just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going 'nyah, nyah, gotcha,' and there's not a damn thing you can do about it."
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sneeky
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Jennifer Crusie |
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3d6092c
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The problem wasn't that Stephen was a fathead and Virginia was a gossip. It was that Stephen was a driven fathead with a large conservative following and Virginia talked to everyone.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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She has a perfect kiss," Roger said, looking out the window, probably in what he thought was Bonnie's direction. "Did you ever kiss like that, where everything was exactly right and it just blew the top of your head off?" "No," Tony said, looking revolted. "Yes," Cal said, Min coming back to him in all her hot and yielding glory. They both turned to look at him, and he said, "Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from bre..
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Nitko nije savrsen. Svi koji su ikada ikoga voljeli morali su prijeci preko necega.
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She met his eyes and playing fair lost its appeal. "You are not going to forget me," she said, her chin up. "I don't give a damn what your plans are, you still want me. Just don't expect me to sit around waiting until you get your commitment problem worked out because I'm getting a brand-new life with this haircut, and it's going to include a brand-new sex life, too. Sorry you won't be joining me."
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a122a35
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People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous."
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danger
dangerous
kids
read
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abec27e
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Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.
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clothing
women
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7dabbce
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I brought you Diet Coke to compensate," he said, opening the cooler. "Also, this conversation is boring." "Right. Sorry." She took the can he handed her and popped it open. "Really sorry. There's nothing more boring than talking about food." "No," Cal said. "Talking about food is great. Talking about not having food is boring."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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c2bfbad
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If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
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I've been spending a lot of time out of here," Harry said. Thank God I don't have a date tonight. This would not be in easy smell to explain."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Four fabulous days and three glorious nights." More than that, Victoria thought. Fabulous days and glorious nights for the rest of my life."
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Leave it to the army to mechanize an erection." "Laugh now, funny girl," Shane said. "That's gonna be a bridge in about a minute." "And that bridge can hold over sixty tons," Carpenter said. "So it's a strong erection," Lisa Livia said, looking at Carpenter. "Oh,"
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The reason you can't lose weight is that you're not supposed to lose weight, you're not built that way, and if you did manage through some stupid diet to take the weight off, you'd be like that chicken mess you just made. Some things are supposed to be made with butter. You're one of them.
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So I've been sexy all these years? Why hasn't anybody noticed?" "Because you dress like you hate your body," Cal said. "Sexy is in your head and you don't feel sexy so you don't look it."
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But those misgivings come less from the resulting loss of familial memories than because it gave Lorelai the working-class skills to escape inherited class obligations and to make her own way in the world. That's one reason why Lorelai is powerful and fearless in ways Mrs. Kim and Mrs. Gilmore are not. She's self-confident enough to accept those things she can't control and to rely upon the kindness of strangers.
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One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is only a law if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work. And that's garbage, Allie. The law is the law. If you don't like it, change it. But don't break it and then start whining when there are consequences.
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legalization-of-marijuana
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6b83194
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I don't want to be alone anymore, but I don't want to go out and cold-bloodedly look for a man, either." - Kate Svenson"
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One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is a law only if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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532d63d
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The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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81098a2
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What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?
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office
political-office
politics
wealth
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Jennifer Crusie |
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655fc96
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She's great.
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Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.
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Who's Matthews?" Zack asked. "The tall blond one you keep calling Junior," Anthony said. "Stop doing that, by the way. It annoys him. Anyway, he's young, strong, and he's got 20/20 vision. Happy?" "No." Zack searched for a good reason why. "He's young. He's new. He doesn't know..." "Great," Anthony said, a savage edge creeping into his voice. "You want somebody not too old, not too young, who knows. That leaves us with a middle-aged cop ..
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didn't matter.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture.
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The attendant opened the door, and the faint barking Nina had heard before became frantic and shrill. Nina stepped into the concrete cell block and stopped, blown out of her self-absorption by the row of gray metal cages where dogs barked to get her attention. She let her breath out, horrified. "Oh, God, this is awful." "Spay your pets." The attendant stopped in front of the next to last cage. "Here you go." She jerked her head again. "Perk..
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There was something about having a plan for dinner, a recipe in hand, that made her feel much less hostile about food.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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244b26e
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Sometimes stories are just previews of coming truths.
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Dont shave,I like it..It helps with one of my new fantasies." "Yeah ?"Zack shifted a little to the center on top of him for maximum pleasure."What new fantasy is that ?" Lucy grinned,the sleepiness in her smile melting into guile."The one about the innocent schoolteacher and the vicious,uncivilized cop.Want to play ?" "Sure."Zack ran his hands up her back."Who do you want to be ?" "I,of course will be the innocent schoolteacher"Lucy batted ..
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hilarious
love
naked
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b59a715
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He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who'd ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who'd ever belonged where she hadn't. My mama warned me about guys like you. He
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Infatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you've worked your way through it. You quit
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Right this way," Emilio said, wincing. He showed them to the best table by the window, slid Min into a bentwood chair, and then stopped by Cal long enough to say under his breath, "I sent the servers home half an hour ago, you bastard." "You're welcome," Cal said loudly, nodding to him."
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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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Di's bouquet trembled in her hands. "Greg slept with my bridesmaid." "Susie?" Min said, not surprised but sick just the same. "I knew she--" "Worse," Di said." "How could it be worse?" Min said and then the other shoe dropped. "Karen?" Di nodded. "Oh," Min said, trying to think of what to say as her rage rose. "Oh, honey." She put her arm around Di. "Tell me this was before he proposed to you and not--" "Last night," Di whispered, and Min t..
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He hung up and smiled at Cal. "That was Min. She wants chicken marsala. You can deliver it to her." "What?" Cal said, dumbfounded. "You know the way. It's probably on your way home." "It's not on my way home, it's not on anybody's way home except God's, the damn place is vertical. What gave you the idea I'd do this?"
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontes or elaborately untied by George Eliot.... Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her." G.K. CHESTERTON"
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Then she turned away before anybody caught her slack-jawed with admiration. He was not the one, that was her DNA talking, looking for a high-class sperm donor. Every woman in the room with a working ovary probably looked at him and thought, This one. Well, biology was not destiny. The amount of damage somebody that beautiful could do to a woman like her was too much to contemplate. She took another drink to cushion the thought, and said, "H..
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Later, she couldn't remember whether she'd had time to stop, or if Donald's trying to ruin her potatoes the way he'd ruined everything else had made her temporarily insane. Whatever the reason, she stabbed him with the sharp, narrow, old-fashioned fork and hit a vein in the back of his hand. Donald screamed, and she shoved his hand away so he wouldn't get blood on her potatoes. "I'm so sorry, Donald," she said and took another bite."
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Okay, why did we have to leave?" Bonnie said when they were in Liza's convertible and Min was banished to the backseat. "Because Min was swapping tongues with a doughnut pusher." Liza looked back over the seat at Min the sinner and shook her head."
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Jennifer Crusie |
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2ff813a
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One hot August Thursday afternoon, Maddie Farady reached under the front seat of her husband's Cadillac and pulled out a pair of black lace underpants. They weren't hers.
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Jennifer Crusie |