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Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.
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And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.
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I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. And it doesn't make me believe that I won't find something that real again.
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Don't never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself, and things will work out fine.
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Mary Kay Andrews |
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Never trust a man who hollers at the help,
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Mary Kay Andrews |
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They'd like the world to think they're hot snot on a gold platter. But really, they're just cold boogers on a paper plate.
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He'd died his blond hair purple in honor of his best friend's wedding, and he wore skinny white jeans, a red shirt, and
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Mary Kay Andrews |
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You don't have to be Southern to have good manners. And you don't have to be a Yankee to make a total ass of yourself.
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Mary Kay Andrews |
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Sometimes the people we think we know the best are the ones with secrets we can't even fathom.
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Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is."
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I smoothed my grandmother's starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the tiny patches where she'd so painstakingly mended it. If I looked closely, and I did, I could see the faintest ghost outlines of stains from family dinners long ago.
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The Silver Palate
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picked up sandwiches and chips
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Savannah gray bricks
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He wants out, Annajane thought. He does not want to marry this woman.
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Hello sweet mommy. My name is Khalika and I am living in Gambia. I have read your requirements and am saying I am excellent candidate for professional job you are wanting. Please be immediate wiring two thousand dollars (American) for air travel expenses.
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Mary Kay Andrews |
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moment, because,
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Old wounds. They faded, but they never really went away, did they?
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She looked around the room and motioned for the waitress to bring her check. Eb waited while she settled her tab.
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you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.
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I can't wrangle bees. I'm terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives." "Hives! That's adorbs, right?" --
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Mom! It was so awesome," Maggy enthused. "Me and Roo had our own hurricane party. The seagulls were, like, flying backward. And the clouds are so thick, you can't even see Big Belle."
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Greer's eyes darted back and forth on the road, always vigilant for bears. Or any other mammal that might wander onto the asphalt. She'd only been on the road for ten miles and already she'd spotted enough roadkill to fill a zoo.
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The pay was crap. My boss was an idiot. And the final straw was that she wanted me to demonstrate a colon cleanse. On the air." Billy sniggered. "Talk about a shitty assignment."
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Dammit, I gotta go," Clint rasped. He slid off the bed, and faltered. His gown bunched at the waist and Greer looked away, but not before glimpsing something she knew she could never unsee."
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Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who's somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson.
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twin five-hundred-twenty-horsepower Mercs on each one. Probably looking at four hundred thousand dollars' worth of big-boy toys there." Greer eyed the boats critically. "You ask me, they just look like gigantic phallic symbols. Might be a little compensation going on there."
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Hey, Mimi. Did that homophobe lady bring any dessert?
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That conniving little slut," Pokey said. "I'd like to rip her arms off and beat her to death with 'em."
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foot-washing Baptists,
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she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not just a flare-up she was experiencing, not just a bout of spring fever. This was full-blown passion.
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The door slammed shut behind her, and a moment later she heard what sounded like a tennis shoe being thrown against the wooden door. "I hate you!" Maggy screamed."
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Wendell had looted the trust fund left to her by her grandfather and father, to the tune of six million dollars. And change.
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She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house."
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She's about as deep as an Arizona mud puddle.
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You know, it's been my family's privilege to bury three generations of Nolans. And I knew Wendell from Kiwanis. He was a fine man. You have my condolences.
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Roo was a confirmed spinster, devoted birdwatcher and, to the chagrin of many of her relatives, a card-carrying liberal Democrat
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Murder?" Roo's eyes shone with excitement. "Right here on Belle Isle?" "Roo!" Evelyn shook her head in exasperation. "For God's sake, have you no sense of propriety?"
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And the most important thing he told me was that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.
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You couldn't hit the ball with a steam iron today,
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Mary Kay Andrews |
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Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.
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truck driver, but mostly earning
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talked to Allie today? Is there
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I sold him the house, if you want to know." "Maybe I'll buy it back, when I sell my screenplay."
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