Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie

Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire." "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer." "Whoa." Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said. Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane.

You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?" Stuart Bagget

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean