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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ee86f5 | America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream, " Dad was fond of commenting while standing with the freezer door open and inspecting every flavor of Ben and Jerry's, oblivious to the customers swarming around him, waiting for him to move." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 4d725ca | As far as one journeys, as much as a man sees, from the turrets of the Taj Mahal to the Siberian wilds, he may eventually come to an unfortunate conclusion --usually while he's lying in bed, staring at the thatched ceiling of some substandard accommodation in Indochina," writes Swithin in his last book, the posthumously published Whereabouts, 1917 (1918). "It is impossible to rid himself of the relentless, cloying fever commonly known as Ho.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cba42de | Those were the best nights of my life. I couldn't say why, exactly, this was so--only that I knew that as an old woman, when I thought back to my youth, I'd remember these nights, sitting with these five people along the harrowing window ledge of the Foreman's Lookout, gazing into that clear blue lake hundreds of feet below. Our friendship was born there. There we were bound together. Something about seeing each other against that spare, al.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 01fc31e | It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| bb8e112 | You know what Confucius said?" "Remind me." " 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' " | Marisha Pessl | ||
| da21ec7 | Love is this elusive bird," he said. "You're the lifelong bird-watcher, looking for this rare red-plumed quail people spend entire lives trying to see for three seconds in a cherry tree on a mountaintop in Japan." "You're mistaking love for perfection," I said. "Real love when it's there? It's just there. It's a metal folding chair." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 23e57a2 | A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 20f223a | We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 407a066 | How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. | death fiction living scary shift sudden transition | Marisha Pessl | |
| 2f2dcc7 | It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of abridging Dad, putting Dad in a nutshell, telling Dad How It Was (and getting it all wrong). ... "The act of being personally misconstrued," Dad said, "informed to one's face one is no more complex than a few words haphazardly strung together like blotchy undershirts on a clothesline-- well, it can fall .. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 6a0de64 | They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 8dd2c3b | Here's something else to worry about," he said. And he kissed me--his hand at the nape of my neck and his mouth on mine, soft at first, then serious and demanding. He drew me closer and kissed me again and desire washed over me, hot and liquid and scary. "Oh boy," I whispered. "Yeah," he said. "Think about it." "What I think ... is that it's a bad idea." "Of course it's a bad idea," Ranger said. "If it was a good idea I'd have been in y.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| bba3ba8 | I was standing with my back to the door, and I saw Connie's eyes go wide. "Be still my heart," Lula said, looking past me, through the window to the sidewalk. I figured they were looking at either Johnny Depp or Ranger. My money was on Ranger." -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| efb6443 | I don't care that you're short. I like lots of things that are short. Little dogs and daffodils. I hate you because you're mean as a snake. Would it kill you to be nice? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 56ac470 | I sensed a familiar presence behind me. A hand brushed my hair back, and Ranger leaned in to me and kissed me on the nape of my neck. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 17be230 | You and Nick are good together," Jake said. "Probably in more ways than you know." "Let's not go there." "You keep saying that to yourself, but maybe it's time for a rethink." "Since when are you interested in my love life?" "You don't have one. You're all about the job. With Bob, you can have both." "You don't know anything about Bob." "I know it's got to be Nick, because there isn't anybody else," Jake said. "Who could possibly compete?" .. | love-life | Janet Evanovich | |
| 79bdda6 | Ranger shrugged. "Things turn up." He reached behind him and came up with a gun. My gun. "Found this in the lobby, too." He tucked the gun under the top edge of my towel, wedging it between my breasts, his knuckles brushing against me. My breath caught in my throat, and for a moment I thought my towel might catch fire. Ranger smiled again. And I did more eye narrowing. "I'll be in touch," Ranger said. And then he was gone." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8cd85cd | You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over the world eating kangaroo a**holes and snail throw-up. He'd eat anything. He don't care how sick he gets. He's another one of my role models, except he needs ironing. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 827279f | There was an air of satisfaction to the house at the end of the day. Maybe the day hadn't gone exactly right, but the day had been lived and the house had been there for its family. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 242b4fb | I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1ec0e81 | Hey. I know dirty." Vinnie" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7cbc966 | And here's the good part: He got a tongue could measure twenty-one inches. Bet Mrs. Giraffe likes that one. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ad5400a | Jamie felt as though her heart would literally take flight from her crest. Damn her and her mouth. "Nick, I was sort of exaggerating about how nasty I was going to act of the plane. Why can't we just leave Fleas with Max and get going?" "She's lying, Nick," Max said. "You don't do things her way and she turns into Satan's daughter." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 23e6cfc | Throwing up is not a group activity | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 008ab0a | 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 looking' to find poloponies. | humorous | Janet Evanovich | |
| 8d624a2 | changed back into my comfy T-shirt advertising beer, crawled into bed, and switched the light off. I woke up at sunrise with Ranger next to me. Naked. No surprise there. Ranger always slept naked. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0e22370 | Thank God for small favors. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 40370ec | Your monkey was looking under the stall doors in the ladies' room,' I told Diesel. 'That's my boy,' Diesel said. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b76c894 | I can't squeeze to keep the breezers in. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d47bd43 | God bless YouTube," Lula said. "You don't even need to go to college no more because you could learn how to do everything on YouTube." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c352384 | I woke up wrapped in Ranger's arms, our legs entwined, my face snuggled into his neck. He smelled nice, and he felt even better . . . warm and friendly. I enjoyed it for a moment before reality took hold. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0b01dc3 | Okay so I fibbed a little about the kids. I didn't want her to feel bad. I mean we can't all be lucky enough to have a hamster. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 592bbcb | Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose. | nachos | Janet Evanovich | |
| 5f6220d | You can relax. I am not here to collect on the deal" I blinked. "You are not? Then why did you drop your gun belt?" "I am tired. I wanted to sit and the belt is uncomfortable." "Oh." He smiled. "Disappointed?" "No." Liar, liar, pants on fire." | hard-eight ranger stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| cdcc37a | 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." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2eeea0b | 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." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7cf278d | 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." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 96d69f0 | 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.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 60cb742 | A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a465066 | 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.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b9b09af | 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?" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9765b5f | 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. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7fb91d5 | Find one lousy body in your aunt's fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking. | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
| 5aa95dd | If it's not authentically you, live without it. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |