Janet Evanovich Quotes

The difference between adventure and adversity is attitude.

The doorbell rang and Grandma ran to get it. It’s him, she said to me. It’s my honey. My father got out of his chair in the living room and took his seat at the table. I don’t care if he craps in a ba...

The downside is my picture’s been all over the media and now my movement is limited. So I could use some help. Why don’t you just go blond? I’ve been blond. When I go blond I look like I should be sin...

The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

The mother and daughter whose roles had reversed—Grandma gladly relinquishing parental responsibility, my mother grimly accepting the task, struggling to find a place for an old woman who’d suddenly b...

The one who deserves your scorn is the bus driver who abandoned his vehicle in Camarillo to get high on pot.

The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.

The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don’t really know what it’s about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decide it’s good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt. M...

There are lots of things we've never talked about. Such as?Children. Suppose we have children and it turns out we don't like them?If we can like Bob, we can like anything, Morelli said. Bob was in the...

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.

There was no expression to his face. He looked like he’d seen it all and didn’t think much of it.

There’s a difference between having maturity and being mature. I’m not ready to be mature. I don’t want to see the AARP magazine in my mailbox.

There’s always tomorrow. Exactly, she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Dea...

They got stuff here that I didn’t even know existed. Everything’s spandex and sequins. It’s a retired ho’s dream come true.

Think of this as an adventure, Diesel said.I’m from Jersey. I get my adventure on the Turnpike.

This is part of the problem with the world today, Diesel said. People don’t believe in the mystical.

To reach the cathedral’s entrance, Kate had to go down a narrow cobblestone street, a bottleneck of restaurants, coffeehouses, and Leonidas chocolate shops, all crammed tightly together and stuck to t...

What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone.

What’s up? I asked my mother. I just got fourteen phone calls about someone hitting Joseph’s Grandma Bella in the face with a chocolate cream pie when she was walking out of the funeral home. They sai...

You could sell it. He shrugged into the jacket. I thought of that, but I decided to give this a try first. See how it felt. A horn beeped from outside. That’s Lula, I said. She’s got the runs.