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1 " If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than no words. You can go back and fix them later. "
― Jana Deleon , The Naked Truth About Self-Publishing
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― Jana Deleon , Fortune Hunter (Miss Fortune Mystery #8)
3 " I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?" "Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought. "
― Jana Deleon
4 " Facebook had to be the biggest playground for self-absorbed assholes that the world had ever seen. "
― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)
5 " Are you sure you weren't adopted?""Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear. "
― Jana Deleon , Unlucky
6 " I’d always gone out of my way to streamline my life—removing all potential complication. I suddenly realized that mostly meant not having people around. Clearly, people were the biggest complication life threw at you. "
7 " Young love ends for hundreds of different reasons,” Gertie said and sighed. Ida Belle nodded. “But usually, life strangles it to death. "
― Jana Deleon , Lethal Bayou Beauty (Miss Fortune Mystery #2)
8 " Don’t let the decor distract you,” Gertie said. “I’d have to go blind for this not to distract me.” “Got that right,” Ida Belle grumbled. “Makes my butt itch, it’s so loud.” Gertie "
9 " You really got him!” Gertie yelled. “Holy crap! I ate a bug. Jeez, someone get some mouthwash. Gah! I ate another one. "
― Jana Deleon , Soldiers of Fortune (Miss Fortune Mystery, #6)
10 " Slapping a man across the face with a fish hasn’t been sexy since the fifties. "
11 " Lord save us all from the machinations of an intelligent female. "
12 " If we can’t laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?” I stared at her. “Other people? "
― Jana Deleon , Swamp Team 3 (Miss Fortune Mystery, #4)
13 " You’re implying that Gertie is too old to be having fun, and that’s wrong. If Gertie wants to dress like a hooker and ride an alligator float down the bayou when she’s a hundred and two, she should do it. "
14 " If our mothers are rolling over every time we do something on their list of things a lady shouldn’t do, they’ve been flopping like flounder since they were buried. "
15 " She closed her eyes and shook her head. I was fairly certain she was praying—whether it was for strength or a vial of untraceable poison, I wasn’t certain. "
16 " Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it’s what you really want to do? "
17 " To my husband, Harold, I leave the Lower Bayou Motel. You’ve spent so many nights there with other women that I felt you should call the place home. It’s been operating in the red for the last eight years, owes back taxes since 1986, and is covered with deadly asbestos. Nothing but the best for you, dear. "
― Jana Deleon , Trouble in Mudbug (Ghost-in-Law, #1)
18 " think sometimes it takes a life-changing event to make us really see the way we’re living based on the choices we’ve made. "
19 " God doesn't care about drinking beer. All those rules were made up by people trying to prevent you from doing something really wrong. Drunks make stupid decisions. If you don't drink, there’s less chance of doing something stupid. "
20 " You can’t be a member of the Sinful Ladies Society if you have a husband. The original members, like me, are all old maids. We’re finally starting to allow widows in, but their husbands have to be dead for at least ten years.Why ten years?Seems to take that long to deprogram them from silly man thinking. "
