Mrs. 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.

He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar

He had a body like batman

You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.

There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect" Stephanie

And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.