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| d466e41 | I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. "I was at my desk, and Mickey told me I had to come out to take a look," Morelli said. "It's floor," I told him. "I can see that. If we add some milk and eggs, we can turn you into a cake." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8f3dd0f | I thought you wanted to date other women?" "I didn't want to date other women. We decided in the heat of the moment that were no longer exclusively attached." "And I could date other men." Morelli was starting to look annoyed. "Have you been dating other men?" "Maybe." "As long as it isn't Ranger," Morelli said. "I don't think Ranger dates." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| be4138e | My mother had been slicing up the chicken. She took a drumstick and dropped it on the floor. She kicked it around a little, picked it up and put it on the edge of the plate. "There," she said, "we'll give him this drumstick." "Deal." | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| e79808e | I could use some help with an FTA. What's your problem? He's old, and I'll look like a loser if I shoot him. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7c512b3 | One of the men gave Butch a bunch of volts with a stun gun. The Rangeman didn't move fast enough, and Butch grabbed the gun and threw it across the room. "Hunh," Rangeman guy said. "Yeah," I said. "Been there, done that." "Are you sure he's human?" "Maybe you could hook a chain to the FlexiCuffs on his ankles and drag him behind your car," I said. "We tried that once, and Ranger didn't like it," the guy said. "You do something twice th.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d095bb2 | That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3a2588e | Stephanie: "I have a list of Kenny's friends. I'm going to run through it." Morelli: "Where'd you get this list?" Stephanie: "Privileged information." Morelli: "You broke into his apartment and stole his little black book." Stephanie: "I didn't steal it. I copied it." Morelli: "I don't want to here any of this. You're not carrying concealed, are you?" Stephanie: "Who, me?" Morelli: "Shit, I must be crazy to work with you" -- | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 3b12266 | Do you have someone watching her house?" (Stephanie) "That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We're so underbudgeted we're one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)" | Janet Evanovich | ||
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| 24795e9 | Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality." | ideas knowledge politics thoughts | Antonio Gramsci | |
| 4c2cedf | Some would ask what country am I from? We ara supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said the country next to Pakistan. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 0e023ab | There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 178e140 | Didn't life consist of the things you did each day? | lois-lowry the-giver | Lois Lowry | |
| 64c9c5b | A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 970579b | and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of-something he can work and fight for." Surely that gift-the gift of a w.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| ba85b8d | Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d48b656 | It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear. | fear inspirational war world-war-2 | Lois Lowry | |
| e40f99e | Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 728e151 | A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 8a6b6b5 | Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone. | Claire Messud | ||
| 057ff4a | I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more. | Zadie Smith | ||
| d7ce4df | Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...] | Zadie Smith | ||
| 7a3cb6d | Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too. | Libba Bray | ||
| 479cce4 | You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of. | relatable tall | Libba Bray | |
| a19185b | We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans. | fail fashion | Libba Bray | |
| 8735720 | She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne--bubbly and intoxicating--and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn't want to seem like an easy mark. "If you must know, I've come to join a convent," Evie said, testing him." | Libba Bray | ||
| 51f0d73 | Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?" His eyes widen. "A fearsome creature with a head full of snakes!" "You musn't fear her," I say, taking the man's hand and leading his toward the river. "She's as tame as a pussycat. She'd probably lick your hand given the chance." "Didn't seem harmless," he whispers, shuddering. "Yes, well, things are not always as they appe.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6b00cb4 | Dead bodies are such trouble," Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh." | Libba Bray | ||
| e82c575 | Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care--only when it suits him. | libba-bray rebel-angels | Libba Bray | |
| 49bb921 | Retribution is a dog chasing its tail. | Libba Bray | ||
| e1497a4 | Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. | disappointed fear stupid useless | Libba Bray | |
| e7a2002 | Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery. | Libba Bray | ||
| b1a6566 | He told me that once, in the war, he'd come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn't speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier's head. He didn't do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fel.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 97f7b16 | Spare a copper for our cause?" the girl with the coin cup asks, her voice weary. "I can spare more than that," I say. I reach into my purse and giver her what real coins I have, and then I press my hand to hers and whisper, "Don't give up," watching the magic spark in her eyes. "The tragedy of the Beardon's Bonnet Factory!" she shouts, a fire catching. "Six souls murdered for a profit! Will you let it stand, sir? Will you look away, m'um?".. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5b362b3 | Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell. | travel | Libba Bray | |
| e70870b | Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame | Ann Patchett | ||
| 8e70320 | For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that.. | crossroads hope inspiration lessons life patchett wisdom | Ann Patchett | |
| e7522b3 | Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world | Ann Patchett | ||
| c777139 | The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6ca3869 | As long as it's a regular day, not too rough to begin with, the ocean is pretty smooth once you make it out past the first set of waves. That's why people are afriad to swim in the ocean. They try to jump over those waves and get slammed down to the bottom and pulled across the sand like a piece of shell. You've got to go throught them, dive under just when they're rising up for you, set your direction, close your eyes, and just swim like h.. | Ann Patchett | ||
| c4ed83f | Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 97aca90 | You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4712b3d | The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4372828 | During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dre.. | Chuck Palahniuk |