790 Quotes by Janet Evanovich

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    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.

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    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 pushed up on his forearms, and expensive black loafers. His hair was cut very short. I was used to seeing him in SWAT dress with long hair, and I hadn’t immediately recognized him. I guess that was the point.

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    How was your day?” Morelli asked me. “Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.

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    I don’t have a car. How am I going to get around?” “Taxi. Skateboard. Drone pickup. Figure it out!

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    Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she’s turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

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    If anything happened to you, I’d be so destroyed they’d have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.

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    I liked you better when you had vordo.” “You’re not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?” “It’d be limiting,” Ranger said, “but at least you wouldn’t have your ass on the horn.

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