Hey, I said, dogs are people, too.
He squinted at me. What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?
He smiled when he saw me . . . and it was the nice smile that included his eyes.
HIGH FIVE
Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. You can read, right? Yep. I always gotta ask these days.
Every two feet there seemed be another Leonidas chocolate café, the Starbucks of Belgium. The Leonidas cafés were inescapable, so she surrendered and got herself a hot chocolate.
Do I look like I’m dressed for a snake jamboree? I don’t think so.
Did you happen to hear anything about me this afternoon? Just how you got thrown off the bridge and Ranger jumped in to save you. Does Mom know? Yeah. She ironed sheets for three hours, mumbling about...
Did they probe you yet? Xandy asked Riley. They always get around to probing you. That’s what the other abductees tell me, anyway.
Babe, nothing’s been happening in my bed, and no one’s going to see your underpants in this meeting unless you go goofy.
A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.
Even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was t...
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might...
Uh-oh, Ranger said. you been reading those Nancy Drew books again?
Think she needs to have an adventure once in a while. And she’s overly curious. You get that from her, my mother said. You’re a lot like your grandmother. Sort of a scary thought, but I knew it was tr...
There who’ll take advantage.
Peripatetic
Looked around for Grandma, spotting her and Dougie hiding behind a car on the opposite side of the street. They were wearing Super Suits and they had bath towels pinned around their necks like capes.
Helped Grandma off and removed her helmet. She stepped away from the bike and straightened her clothes. I can see why people like these Harleys, she said. They really wake you up down there, don’t the...