I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

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

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

I have bad car juju." -Stephanie Plum

With the exception of dessert, food is food.