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I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

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.

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.

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.