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Diesel grinned. "You have a choice. You can be the stupid inferior female or the stupid powerful female." "How about if I'm just myself?" Diesel glanced at Ranger. "I'm not going to touch that one." Ranger shook his head. "I'll pass." "Funny," I said. "Very funny."
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I liked you better when you had vordo." "You're not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?" "It'd be limiting," Ranger said, "but at least you wouldn't have your ass on the horn."
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I don't want a new man." "I'll be dead someday," my mother said. "And then what? You'll wish you had someone." "I have a hamster."
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What's he doing?" Mary Lou asked. "What's he doing?" "Getting a spoon. I was was right-he went out to buy ice cream." The light blinked out, and Morelli disappeared. Mary Lou and I scuttled across Morelli's backyard and squinted into his window. "Do you see him?" Mary Lou asked. "No. He's disappeared." "I didn't hear the front door open." "No, and he's got the television on. He's just out of sight somewhere." Mary Lou crept closer. "Too bad..
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A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?"
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Oh boy," Lula said when she saw me. "Think we got a good story walking in the door, here. What's with the handcuff?" "I thought it would look good with the cheese balls in my hair. You know, dress up the outfit." "I hope it was Morelli," Connie said. "I wouldn't mind being cuffed by Morelli." "Close," I said. "It was Ranger." "Uh-oh," Lula said. "Think I just wet my pants." "It wasn't anything sexual," I said. "It was ... an accident. An..
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Steph?" "Huh?" I still had my hands on his stomach, and I could feel him laughing. "I can smell something burning, babe. You must be thinking." It wasn't my brain that was on fire. I felt around a little with my fingertips. He shook his head. "Don't encourage me. This isn't a good time." He removed my hands from his stomach and took another look at the cuts. "How did this happen?"
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He slid an arm around me and pulled me to him. I rested my head on his chest, and he nuzzled my hair and kissed me just above the ear.
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Lately, I've been spending a lot of time rolling on the ground with men who think a stiffy represents personal growth.
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Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon, and the truth.
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My mother is a good Christian woman who would never refuse someone a seat at her table, but I knew this was a nightmare for her. With Lula and Grandma at the table together, it's much more likely that my father will try to stab someone with his fork.
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You hung up on me," he said. "Don't ever hang up on me." His voice was quiet, but as always the authority was unmistakable. He was wearing black dress slacks, a long-sleeved lightweight black sweater pushed up on his forearms, and expensive black loafers. His hair was cut very short. I was used to seeing him in SWAT dress with long hair, and I hadn't immediately recognized him. I guess that was the point."
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Most fathers don't show up with hand grenades and bowie knives." "They should be ashamed of themselves," Jake said."
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Okay," Ranger said. "We're going to walk through the room and look for this guy. Pretend I'm not here." "You going to be the wind again?" I asked. Ranger grinned. "Wiseass."
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Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.
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You don't wear responsibility like clothes. You can't take it off and put it on when you feel like. You wear responsibility on the inside, and it isn't that easy to remove. You have to learn how to live with it.
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Ranger is one of the few civilians in Trenton with a permit to carry concealed. He owns office buildings in Boston, has a daughter in Florida by a failed marriage, has worked worldwide as a mercenary, and has a moral code that isn't entirely in sync with our legal system. I have no idea who the heck he is . . . but I like him.
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I always listen," Ranger said. "I don't always agree. I have a problem right now that I can't seem to solve by myself. I need you to help me find my daughter. And there's an even bigger problem involved. I feel a financial and moral obligation to my daughter. I send child support, I send birthday and Christmas presents, I visit when I'm invited. But I've kept myself emotionally distanced. I'm not emotionally distanced from you. I couldn't l..
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So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens.
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little-people
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Concentrate on doing the job, not the fear.
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His full name is Ricardo Carlos Manoso. Second generation Cuban-American. Was Special Forces. Works for Vinnie now. He makes apprehensions other agents only dream about. He gets a little creative sometimes, but hey, that's the way it is with a genius, right?
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Trenton cops wore more hats than I could name. They were arbitrators, social workers, peacekeepers, baby-sitters and law enforcers. The job was boring, terrifying, disgusting, exhausting and often made no sense at all. The pay was abysmal, the hours inhuman, the department budget was a joke, the uniforms were short in the crotch. And year after year, the Trenton cops held the city together.
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When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.
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My fear was that I'd oversleep, and when Ranger broke into my apartment to wake me up, I'd drag him into bed with me. And then what would I tell Joe?
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You shouldn't be driving," Morelli said to Kloughn. "I know," Kloughn said. "I tried walking, but I was too drunk. It's okay. I was driving very slooooowly and 'sponsibly."
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I was pressed for time, so all I was able to whip up was deviled eggs with a dollop of Tsar Nicoulai caviar on top, a selection of fruit and artisanal cheeses, and sauteed Dover sole with lemon and capers." Kate's idea of preparing a quick meal was eating Cap'n Crunch out of the box, so this was Christmas dinner by comparison."
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Is that why you have hand grenades and a garrote in your nightstand?" "They're sleep aids."
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You took your clothes off?" "You didn't notice?" "No! Jeez Louise, I don't even know you." "If you look under the covers, you'll know me better." "I don't want to know you better!" "That's a big fib," Diesel said."
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humorous
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love
wicked-appetite
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This thing's giving me an eye twitch," Ranger said. "Can you get the sound off?" I started pressing buttons and the screen went blank. "How's that?" I asked. "Babe, you shut the system down." "Yes, but the sound is off." "Reprogram it." "No need to get testy," I told him. "I don't know where I'm going." "I have a map. You just get on I-95 south and take the Springfield exit." "And then what?" "Then you'll have to pull over and reprogram the..
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Nice tackle, babe," he said. And then he kissed me. No doubt about the intention this time. Not the sort of kiss you'd give your cousin, for instance. More like the sort of kiss a man would give a woman when he wanted to rip her clothes off and give her a reason to sing the Hallelujah Chorus."
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Creep" I said, cutting to the heart of the matter. - Stephanie "Gosh, I wonder who this could be." - Morelli "You lied to me. I knew it too. I knew right from the beginning, you jerk." Silence stretched taut between us, and I realized my accusation covered a lot of territory, so I narrowed the field. "I want to knew about this big secret case you're working on, and I want to know how it ties in to Kenny Mancuso and Moogey Bues." - Stephan..
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Is that your granny?" Ranger wanted to know. "Yup. She was checking to make sure Moogey was here." "You've got a helluva gene pool, babe."
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even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was thirty two years old - she still had aspirations of growing up to be a fairy.
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Remember, so swashing anyone into the trunk of your car!" "Sure," Lula said, "I know that"
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lula
stephanie-plum
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The only normal people are people you don't know very well." Diesel "That's a quote from a famous person," I told him. Lizzy Tucker"
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I've been under a lot of stress lately." "You know what I do when I got stress?" Lula said. "I go shoe shopping." "I knit," Connie said. "Get out!" Lula said. "I never knew you knit stuff." "I don't knit stuff," Connie said. "I just knit." --
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It was so much easier when I was young. You got a boyfriend, and you married him. You had some kids, you got older, one of you died, and that was it.''Jeez. No true love?' '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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helped Grandma off and removed her helmet. She stepped away from the bike and straightened her clothes. "I can see why people like these Harleys," she said. "They really wake you up down there, don't they?"
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It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful.
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woman
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janet-evanovich
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I looked around the lot. "Is he dead anywhere nearby?" I really wanted a no on this one. I'd already had my millennium quota of dead. "You see that big bush by the Dumpster?" Jackie said. "Yeah." "You see that ugly-ass foot sticking out of that big bush?" Oh boy. She was right. There was a foot sticking out of the bush. "Shit, Jackie," I said. "You didn't kill that foot, did you?" "No, I didn't kill that foot. That's what I've been try..
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I'd call Ranger and see if he wanted to run with me. Then he'd be over here first thing tomorrow and make me go out and get some exercise. "Yo," Ranger said, answering the phone. His voice was husky, and I realized it was late and I'd probably awakened him. "It's Stephanie. I'm sorry to be calling so late." He took a slow breath. "No problem. Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope..
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Sliced off like a chicken neck and stuck with a hatpin. Reminded me of my husband." Lula leaned forward so she could whisper. "You talking about size? Was your man's part that big?" "Heck no," Grandma said. "His part was that dead."
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Ranger was waiting. He was dressed in black slacks, a form-fitting black T-shirt, and a black blazer.
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Criminy, Emerson. That's even worse," Riley said. "Who asks someone he's just met if she'd like to see his thimbles? That's serial killer creepy." Emerson"
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