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Ranger's lips swept along my jawline to my ear. "I could make you forget the gown."
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Morelli was an amazing lover, but Ranger was magic.
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Shit for brains," Leo's father said. "That's what you got ... shit for brains."
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Not that I'm aware," Sunshine said."
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I looked around. I didn't see Grandma. She was in the bedroom, and she'd mentioned the bathroom, and Oh my God! "Babe!" Ranger shouted from the bathroom. "Come get your grandmother." Ranger was standing in the glass-enclosed shower with the door open, looking out at Grandma. He was dripping wet and seemed not especially concerned that he was naked. "It's like she's paralyzed," he said. "Amazing," Grandma said, eyes wide, staring in unblinki..
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Damn, piss, shit, fuck!
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Well that's disappointing," Grandma Mazur said. "I expected something better from her."
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exactly the garden spot of the Garden State. In truth,
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Two windows," she said with a smile. "And there's no such word as besweatered." "It's like bespectacled, only with a sweater."
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Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.
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My mother fainted. Crash, onto the floor with the big wooden spoon still in her hand.
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every other aspect of his life. He had the
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Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood." Riley"
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HIGH FIVE
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Instead, I yelled at him. "You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet."
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Babe!" Ranger shouted from the bathroom. "Come get your grandmother."
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You have a gun! Why didn't you use it on Ramirez? Jesus, you hit him with your pocketbook like some sissy girl.
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guess I left the wrong hole empty." She leaned forward to examine her handiwork. "Not bad for my first time with a gun. I shot that sucker right in the gumpy."
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Vinnie slammed his door shut, and Lula stuck
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years old and widowed. No children. He'd sold his insurance business
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Connie handed me the check and plucked at a clump of mascara hanging at the end of her left eyelash. "I'm telling you, it's fucking hard to be classy," she said."
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I was listening to you the whole time. I didn't trust you to hang on to the earbud, so I had a mini-microphone sewn into your shirt. It's just under the rolled hem on the neckline." I glanced at it. "I thought it was just another rhinestone."
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My mother was in the kitchen ironing. Physically she's a younger version of my Grandma Mazur, and physically I'm a younger version of my mother. Mentally and emotionally my mother is on her own. Lunacy seems to have skipped a generation and my mother is left to bear the burden of maintaining standards of decorum for the family. My grandmother and I are the loose cannons.
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walked him to the door. "Is there anything else you want me to do? Check your mail? Water your plants?" "My mail is being forwarded to my lawyer. And I'm watering my own plants." "So, you feel safe in the Batcave?" The corners of his mouth curved into the hint of a smile. He leaned forward and kissed me at the base of my neck, just above my T-shirt collar. "Sweet dreams." Before he left, he said good-night to Grandma, who was still in the k..
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It's not a good idea to mess with a woman who has a pimple.
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Nice work," I said, alluding to her nails. "Maura, at The Hair Palace, does them. She's a genius with nails, and she'll bikini wax you till you're bald as a billiard ball."
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tinted windows rounded the corner, obviously chasing Kevin. It blew past us, screeching to a
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Ranger transferred the messenger bag from his shoulder to mine, pulled me into him, and kissed me like he meant it.
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businesses
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I'm a firm believer in denial. My reasoning is why deal with unpleasantness today when you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. And if you procrastinate long enough, maybe the issue will go away.
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I like cars the way I like my men. I pick them up, grab the stick, and drive them hard down the straightaways and fast around the curves.
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Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.
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He shouldn't have shot Tiki," Logan said. "Hawaiian gods get even. Did you see what Tiki did to his foot? It flew right off his leg when you kicked it!"
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Every time I turn around, Short Stuff got his nose in my business. But
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He shook his head, disgusted like. "You're impossible. You're not worth the effort." I curled my fingers into the front of his T-shirt and hauled him closer. "Not even in your dreams could you imagine how impossible I can be." We were toe to toe with my br**sts skimming his chest, our eyes locked. "I'll drink to that," Morelli said. The third schnapps went down smooth as silk. I gave the empty glass to Morelli and licked my lips. Morelli wa..
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This is the advantage to being an eccentric. Everyone expects you to be eccentric." Emerson"
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Every time I get social with you I end up all by myself, naked, in the middle of the street." I rolled my eyes. "That only happened once...and you weren't naked. You were wearing socks and a shirt." "I was speaking figuratively. If you want to get specific, what about the time you locked me in a freezer truck with three corpses? What about the time you ran over me with the Buick?" I threw my hands into the air. "Oh sure, bring up the Buick...
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So why'd you part ways with this Dickie Orr person?" Lula asked. "He's a jerk." "Good enough for me," she said. "I hate him already."
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Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. "You can read, right?" "Yep." "I always gotta ask these days."
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Her oldest brother, Lowell, usually sent her a conspiracy-laden tirade about the government being in cahoots with Big Oil, the Russians, and the Taliban, in no particular order.
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knees and your shirt caught in your zipper." "I don't remember that part," Dickie said. "Did I used to do that?" "Yes." Dickie started laughing. "I wasn't making a lot of money back then. I couldn't afford a hotel room." "It's not funny!" I said. "Sure it is. Grass stains and rug burns are always funny." He looked over at Morelli. "She didn't like to do doggy." Morelli slid a look at me and smiled. There wasn't much I didn't like"
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Here's the thing," Riley said. "I'm not really into diabolical possibilities. I'm more into logical explanations."
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Do I look like I'm dressed for a snake jamboree? I don't think so.
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through no fault of his own was a victim of an economy in the toilet. Joe used to make six figures a year in a corporate position commanding a crew that installed high-end security systems in Malibu mansions much like the one he was visiting right now. Joe's Geek Squad job was a step down with no chance of stepping up. He had a monstrous mortgage on a house that was worth half of what he'd originally paid for it. His wife had left him and t..
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