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...
Uh-oh, Ranger said. you been reading those Nancy Drew books again?
Letting my skirt ride up to a couple inches below my doo-dah,
He hasn’t cut his hair in at least ten years. For all I know that was also the last time he washed it.
Came through the mail,
[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's...
You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)
You know what this is? Lula said. This here's plane rage.Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with eating. If you make a scene they'll hual you off in leg irons...
You hung up on me, he said. Don’t ever hang up on me. His voice was quiet, but as always the authority was unmistakable. He was wearing black dress slacks, a long-sleeved lightweight black sweater pus...
You had a strange childhood. Everyone’s childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood.
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 m...
When I was a little girl I wanted to be a reindeer-the flying kind. I spent a couple years galloping around looking for lichen and fantasizing about boy reindeer. Then one day I saw Peter Pan and my r...
What if there was no house keeper? What if it had been a ploy to get a woman alone?
We’ve got to get into shape, I said to Lula. We should go to a gym or something. I’d sooner set myself on fire.
We went to the wall and looked down at Vlatko, sprawled on the road below us.'Do you think he's okay?' I asked.'Babe,' Ranger said. 'He's one inch thick.
Unzipping that body bag didn’t bother me, Ranger said, but I’m going to have nightmares over this casino.
Trust him, I said. Trust Superman, Spider-man, E.T., the Ghost of Christmas Present . . . whoever the hell.
This is a little awkward, I said, but my mother just ran over the rabbit.Ran over?As in roadkill. We're not sure what to do about it.Where are you?Giovichinni's, buying lunch meat.And the rabbit?Gone....
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...
There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspectStephanie