Pretty, he said. The wine? You. I was wearing a white T-shirt and striped pajama bottoms with a drawstring waist. My feet were bare and my hair was down and disorderly. This would be perfect if we wer...
Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage?Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.
Personally, I thought we were in big trouble if I was the one standing between the world’s population and hell.
Omigod, Valerie said. Unh! And her water broke. It was an explosion of water. A tidal wave. We’re talking Hoover Dam quantity water. Water everywhere . . . but mostly on Cal. Cal had been standing at...
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.'There are some similarities.
Okay, she said. I’ll go with him, but you owe me. I want one of them five-gallon jugs of rice pudding when I come
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No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.
My mother slapped her forehead and rolled her eyes. Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, what are you thinking of? This is no kind of work for a nice young lady.
My mother came into the kitchen. Whose car is that parked in front of our house? That’s Stephanie’s new car, Grandma said. Isn’t it a pip? One of my mother’s eyebrows raised in question. Two new cars?...
My favored exercise was walking the length of the mall to get to Cinnabon.
My father would eat cat shit if it was salted, fried, or frosted, but it took an act of Congress to get him to eat a vegetable.
My big move was to get out of my underpants without snagging my foot and falling on my face.
My Spanish is limited to burrito and taco,
Morelli got Briggs a glass. Don’t let the curtains on the windows and the toaster in the kitchen fool you. I’m even less civilized than she is.
Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. this is it, he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep.this car has protective qualities You mean like a guardian angel? I...
Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to...
Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week.Carl Costanza - Hot Six
I’m only getting one doughnut, Lula said, getting out of the Firebird. I’m on a new diet where I only have one of anything. Like I can have one pea. And I can have one piece of asparagus. And I can ha...
I’d had a less tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood, but somewhere in my twenties I feel like I got stalled in the process and now I’m drifting, marking time without any great passion to...