Jennifer Crusie

First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I'd let you babysit.

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.

He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who__ ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who__ ever belonged where she hadn__.My mama warned me about guys like you.He turned to her as if he__ heard her and took off his sunglasses, and she went down the steps to meet him, wiping her sweaty palms on her dust-smeared khaki shorts. __i, I__ Sophie Dempsey,_ she said, flashing the Dempsey gotta-love-me grin as she held out her hot, grimy hand, and after a moment he took it.His hand was clean and cool and dry, and her heart pounded harder as she looked into his remote, gray eyes.__ello, Sophie Dempsey,_ her worst nightmare said. __elcome to Temptation.

[_] I have a date this afternoon." "Oh, Lord." Jake closed his eyes. "Who are you going to destroy now?""I beg your pardon?""The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them.""I haven't maimed anyone.""You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle." Jake shook his head. "And they still ask you out.

He won__ say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him.

One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is only a law if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work. And that's garbage, Allie. The law is the law. If you don't like it, change it. But don't break it and then start whining when there are consequences.

Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.

You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.

I'm thirty-four.""You don't look thirty-four.""That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She wouldn__ do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end. Also people didn__ do things like that in Southern Ohio. A sawed-off shotgun, that was the ticket.

If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...

Bet you ten bucks we make it."What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this."Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good.""Our odds are too good

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

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Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt.