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 living room licking lint off the carpet.
By the time I questioned Briggs late this afternoon, there were only two dogs that hadn’t been adopted. And he wanted to keep those two. And he said to tell you he got the job. He’s the new weatherman...
Burg Catholicism was a convenient religion. When the mind boggled, there was always God, waiting in the wings to take the rap. Connie handed me the check and plucked at a clump of mascara hanging at t...
Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her.'And he disconnected.I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His apartment got blown up, and I need to find him.'And I...
Babe! Ranger shouted from the bathroom. Come get your grandmother. Ranger was standing in the glass-enclosed shower with the door open, looking out at Grandma. He was dripping wet and seemed not espec...
As if they'd never seen a seven-foot transvestite and a two-hundred-pound black woman with blond baloney curls all dressed up like Cher on a bad day. Do I know how to conduct an undercover operation,
Are you afraid of me?Uh... yes.'The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.
And we’re going to bring him in. How are you gonna do that? You got an elephant gun? You got Ranger in the trunk of your car? I have you. I’m going to send you into Fat Dave’s and you’re going to char...
And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs.Mr. Landowsky
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.
And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.
A gift card says I feel obligated to get you something, but I don’t care enough to put any effort into finding just the right gift.
A flock of cardinals in scarlet frocks with tall white miters on their heads came trailing behind him.
Life is a jelly donut. You don't really know what it's about till 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.
[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't nee...
Think of this as an adventure, Diesel said.I’m from Jersey. I get my adventure on the Turnpike.
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.
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...
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.