When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.

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

Concentrate on doing the job, not the fear.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

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

Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)

It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the television. When out in the lot there arose such a clatter, they sprang from their recliners to see what was the matter. Away to the window they flew like a flash, tore open the blinds and threw up the sash. And what to their wondering eyes should appear, but Stephanie Plum and yet another of her cars burning front to rear.