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| 87932cf | Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They're made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| fcea797 | There's always tomorrow." "Exactly," she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn't starve to death, she decided. Maybe she'd eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 62dba66 | I did such a gigantic eye roll I almost fell over. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0763f17 | Cooking wasn't so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn't seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it ... | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d1d4bfe | I rushed us out of your parents' house because I didn't think I could manage two hours at the dinner table with everyone focused on Joe Loosey's joystick sitting in the refrigerator next to the applesauce. | joe-morelli | Janet Evanovich | |
| a4517c7 | I ordered a pitcher of beer," Morelli said. "Hope that's okay." "It's perfect. I need it now." Morelli whistled through his teeth, and everyone jumped in the restaurant. He raised his hand and mouthed "Beer" to the waitress. "Gee, that's smooth," I said to Morelli. "I'm a Jersey Italian, and my girl needs a drink." -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9787b0a | We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 87d2e87 | You know what your problem is? You got too many scruples. One or two is okay, but you get too many of them, and it clogs everything up." What she said made no sense at all, but was probably right. "I got some scruples," Lula said, "but I know when to stop. There's a point where you have to say enough is enough and screw scruples." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| eb5b83e | The ballroom was empty of people but filled with round tables and chairs. It was set for a wedding party. White tablecloths with huge pink bows and pink and white artificial flower centerpieces, a two-foot riser with a long decorated table for the bridal party, a smaller round table next to the riser. The smaller table supported a massive wedding cake that was being cooled by a standing fan. "This is so romantic," I said to Ranger. "Does it.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b4b529a | As I ran water to wash my hands, my earbud fell out of my ear and went down the drain. "Crap!" I hauled my cellphone out of my bag and texted Ranger. , he textd back." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8f1af3f | Once again, the key to true happiness is lowered expectations. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e83f91d | Do you know how to pilot a yacht?" she asked. "No, I don't, but I thought it would be fun to try it in pitch-black darkness in the middle of the Flores Sea," Nick said, smiling. "They light up the island, right?" "You're such a smart-ass" "I known, but I'm a charming smart-ass" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b91a58d | They were about ten yards away, coming up the starboard side, when the men suddenly dove off their boat. Nick looked over his shoulder and saw Kate standing behind him with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher resting on her shoulder. It may have been the sexiest thing he'd ever seen. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ad8e209 | Nick stopped on the sidewalk, pulled a ring from his pocket, and handed it to Kate. "Your wedding ring." It was a platinum band inlaid with diamonds. Simple but elegant. Kate put the ring on her finger. "That's got to be the least romantic proposal in history. Where did you steal this?" "I bought it," he said. "That must have been a new experience for you." "It was. Cost me ten grand." He slipped a matching platinum band onto his finger. ".. | proposal | Janet Evanovich | |
| f477352 | Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail, and her flawless skin had a slight sheen from her dash across the parking lot and up the stairs. Sexy, but he suspected the fantasy the sheen inspired was better than the reality. She was the job. Probably wore Kevlar to bed. End of story. Still, he did enjoy playing with her. He liked her big blue eyes, cute little nose, slim athletic body, and her earnest dedication to making the world a more .. | janet-evanovich kate-o-hare lee-goldberg nick-fox | Janet Evanovich | |
| 2dfb651 | Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a5200a3 | You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. | change gratitude thanks | Sarah Ban Breathnach | |
| e46e423 | When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 7987c92 | In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest tria.. | happiness love marriage | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| ecf0dc3 | The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. | p211 wisdom | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 00065c6 | No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one's owns self sufficiency. | faith god independence prayer self-sufficiency | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| deaf957 | Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 26b7d12 | A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption, but in the Divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into Paradise. If Our Lord had come merely as a teach.. | christ forgiveness heaven jesus paradise penitent-thief repentance salvation the-cross | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| bf4b6a6 | Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us? | image-of-god love | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| a877024 | There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man's personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag "morbid." | personal-responsibility | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 3dddac7 | Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness. | jesus miracles skepticism the-cross | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 2a17990 | When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
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| aa3dcd1 | The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority. | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| baaed54 | Hyty ttdfq dy'man bnfs lTryq@ 'qr', akl w'nm w'fkr l 'stTy` 'n 'f`l 'y shy' akhr .. | Antonio Gramsci | ||
| 11d963b | No one has expressed what is needed better than Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of the London-based al-Arabiya news channel. One of the best-known and most respected Arab journalists working today, he wrote the following, in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (September 6, 2004), after a series of violent incidents involving Muslim extremist groups from Chechnya to Saudi Arabia to Iraq: "Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We .. | neo-muslims terrorists | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 9d71272 | No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do... | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 13a6bce | Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit. | Arthur Conan Doyle Sir | ||
| 6123bfb | It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| f06b257 | Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 3b1af8e | I love and am loved by a better man than he. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 96a641f | How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life. | John Banville | ||
| dd0309c | She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c0e4781 | But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 4fc4be4 | Then, recalling what he had said, she turned to him eagerly. "What's my surprise?" Most Ancient turned and reached for something that was behind him. He picked it up and placed it in her arms, and it looked up at her with wide, curious eyes. It was what she had once been: tiny, a wisp of a thing, with a mischievous smile and a trusting, visible heart. "Oh!" she cried. She hugged it to her, against her badge. "What's its name?" "Ask it," Mos.. | Lois Lowry (Author) | ||
| abd6965 | He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 37d6cae | Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered. | folktales | Lois Lowry | |
| a4a261d | A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6541bcf | Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next. | Lois Lowry |