Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.

Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.

If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.