Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ...but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still...
Janet EvanovichMrs. Zuppa was coming in from bingo just as I was leaving the building. "Looks like you're going to work," she said, leaning heavily on her cane. "What are you packin'?" "A thirty-eight." "I like a nine-millimeter myself." "A nine's good." "Easier to use a semiautomatic after you've had hip replacement and you walk with a cane," she said. One of those useful pieces of information to file away and resurrect when I turn eighty-three.
Janet EvanovichValerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. โIโm going to marry my snuggy wuggums,โ she said. Morelli paused, his fork halfway to the roast chicken platter. He slid his eyes to me and leaned close. โIf you ever call me snuggy wuggums in public Iโll lock you in the cellar and chain you to the furnace.
Janet EvanovichHeโs sort of a homeless horse,โ I said. โIโm leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I wonโt be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I donโt want that horse in my apartment.โ โWho would put a horse in an apartment? Thatโs dumb.โ โWhereโs the horse staying now?โ โMy apartment.โ โI can always count on you to brighten my day,โ Ranger said. And he disconnected.
Janet EvanovichHe [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.
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