[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

Morelli smiled. "It could have been Jenny Ragucci. That makes much more sense. I had good luck with sluts." I looked over at him. All in the past," Morelli said. "I'm a cupcake man now." Whoa, dude," Mooner said. "That's so, like, cosmic.

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.