9 Quotes by Donna Andrews

For me, the start of a party only means a change from the tangible, boring, but satisfactory work of cooking, cleaning, and decorating to the unpredictable and far more difficult task of keeping several hundred neighbors and family members from injuring each other or driving me crazy before the end of the evening.

If you're not entirely sure you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, it seems to me that the last thing you'd want to do is to set in motion a very lengthy, time-consuming, expensive, and highly public process designed to lead inexorably to just that.

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you’re hooked.

If you’re not entirely sure you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, it seems to me that the last thing you’d want to do is to set in motion a very lengthy, time-consuming, expensive, and highly public process designed to lead inexorably to just that.

I don’t see why we can’t have more outdoor homicides,” Dr. Smoot said.

Clowns, hoboes, gypsies, and furry animals of all kinds scattered madly and dived for cover. No doubt they thought I’d finally lost it and was planning to lob more grenades.

His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.

Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds.