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Seneca, the Roman philosopher. Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.
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If she had any sense at all, she'd clean out her desk and look for another job. Something safe and sane, like catching alligators or looking for land mines in Afghanistan.
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I know that the Federal Reserve vault holds more gold than Fort Knox. Fort Knox only holds about four thousand six hundred tons of gold. The Federal Reserve vault holds approximately seven thousand. That's a lot of gold.
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Riley had been in the interrogation room for six hours. For most people, this would have been a terrible hardship. Even a few weeks ago, Riley herself would have seen it as a nightmare. Now she just thought it was a nice place to sit down and take a rest. After all, she wasn't climbing down a rope into a dark cavern or getting pushed over a cliff, tied up in a car.
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gold is stored in New York in vaults resting on bedrock, eighty feet below street level. The walls of the vaults are steel-reinforced concrete. The vaults are impenetrable.
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Riley stared at the vest and polo shirt. "Is this necessary?" "Protocol," Wesley said. Riley tugged the shirt over her head and shoved her arms into the vest. "This isn't going to be dangerous, is it? The vest is just a formality, right?" "Right," Emerson said. "There's nothing to worry about." One of the men handed Riley an AR-15 assault rifle. "Just in case," he said."
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propped up on cinderblocks. An electric
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Was that decision weighing on you?
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Did they probe you yet?" Xandy asked Riley. "They always get around to probing you. That's what the other abductees tell me, anyway."
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She knew that the Germans were unhappy, but like everyone else, she thought Germans were always unhappy.
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The balcony encircled the entire room and provided access to two levels of towering carved oak bookshelves. A huge domed ceiling loomed above her, featuring an eighteenth-century Italian fresco. A large weather-beaten Coleman tent had been set up in front of a massive stone fireplace.
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Emerson found a smaller length of rope, wrapped it around Riley's waist, tied it in a knot, and passed it between her legs. "How do you feel?" Emerson asked her. "Like I'm wearing a rope thong." "That's an erotic comparison," Emerson said. "I like it."
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You're going to send me down first?" "I thought you would want to go down first." "I want to go down never."
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Riley decided the man was physically a ten, but intellectually he was a certifiable fruit basket.
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She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was her. She switched the lamp off and played out the rope, dropping more slowly, trying to control the whimpering.
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Um, Emerson?" she said. "I've reached the end of my rope."
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the RV. "Was that your father's too?" she asked as they drove past the motorhome. "It's Vernon's. Aunt Myra's son. My father wouldn't have been caught dead in one of those. So, naturally, he was." "Pardon?"
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came out alive," Kate said."
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He had his hand in your pants and he kissed you," Lula said. "I'm wetting myself." --
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Congratulations. You caught yourself a Munchkin.
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I don't exactly date, but I sort of have a boyfriend." "What does sort of mean?" "It means that he looks like my boyfriend, but I don't say it out loud."
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So much for the sexy moment, I thought. Saved by monkey gas.
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Cute," Ranger repeated. "That just dropped my testosterone level."
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If I had a Yeti hiding in my closet I'd take the cat and go someplace else too," Lula said. We"
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My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex . . . a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.
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I'm not spectral, but I've been told I can be pretty damn phenomenal.
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How about we cut a hole in your bedspread and punch your head through it," Lula said. "That should be about your size."
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Death isn't such a big deal when it's happening to someone else.
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It was a Geek Squad badge from Best Buy.
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Just make sure you're not withholding information, Sandeman. Your parole officer might find it annoying." He gave me a shot to the shoulder that knocked me back a foot. "Somebody yanks my parole officer's chain, and somebody might find out why they call me the Sandman. Maybe you want to think about that." Not anytime soon."
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here," Briggs said."
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Probably went to get a pretzel
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The one who deserves your scorn is the bus driver who abandoned his vehicle in Camarillo to get high on pot.
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The result is sometimes an ugly display of old lady bitch slapping.
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I'd find you," Ranger said. He took my hand, kissed the palm, and got out of the car."
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THREE TO GET DEADLY
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That's how hospitals get you. You go in to visit and before you know it they got a camera stuck up your butt and they're lookin' to find poloponies.
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When you live in Jersey a beach isn't enough. People have energy in Jersey. They need things to do. They need a beach with a boardwalk. And the boardwalk has to be filled with rides and games and crappy food. Add some miniature golf. Throw in a bunch of stores selling T-shirts with offensive pictures. Life doesn't get much better than this. And the best part is the smell. I've been told there are places where the ocean smells wild and briny..
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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." I didn't have a reply to that, but I thought it sounded like an okay philosophy. So I beeped the Escape locked, got into Tank's SUV, and we chugged off for my place."
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ONE FOR THE MONEY
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My mother slapped her forehead and rolled her eyes. "Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, what are you thinking of? This is no kind of work for a nice young lady."
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I rolled my eyes so far into the back of my head I saw myself Thinking"- Stephanie Plum High Five"
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Honey, Half the women in NJ have sold him their cannolli -Conie to Stephanie about Joe Morelli (One for the money)
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Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early.
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