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101 " I brought you Diet Coke to compensate,” he said, opening the cooler. “Also, this conversation is boring.” “Right. Sorry.” She took the can he handed her and popped it open. “Really sorry. There’s nothing more boring than talking about food.” “No,” Cal said. “Talking about food is great. Talking about not having food is boring. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Welcome To Temptation / Bet Me
102 " If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Faking It (Dempseys, #2)
103 " I've been spending a lot of time out of here," Harry said. Thank God I don't have a date tonight. This would not be in easy smell to explain. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Charlie All Night
104 " Four fabulous days and three glorious nights.” More than that, Victoria thought. Fabulous days and glorious nights for the rest of my life. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Trust Me on This
105 " The reason you can’t lose weight is that you’re not supposed to lose weight, you’re not built that way, and if you did manage through some stupid diet to take the weight off, you’d be like that chicken mess you just made. Some things are supposed to be made with butter. You’re one of them. "
106 " So I’ve been sexy all these years? Why hasn’t anybody noticed?” “Because you dress like you hate your body,” Cal said. “Sexy is in your head and you don’t feel sexy so you don’t look it. "
107 " But those misgivings come less from the resulting loss of familial memories than because it gave Lorelai the working-class skills to escape inherited class obligations and to make her own way in the world. That's one reason why Lorelai is powerful and fearless in ways Mrs. Kim and Mrs. Gilmore are not. She's self-confident enough to accept those things she can't control and to rely upon the kindness of strangers. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest
108 " I don't want to be alone anymore, but I don't want to go out and cold-bloodedly look for a man, either." - Kate Svenson "
― Jennifer Crusie , Manhunting
109 " One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is a law only if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work. "
110 " The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong. "
111 " She’s great. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Jennifer Crusie Bundle: Welcome to Temptation/ Fast Women/ Faking It
112 " Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory’s mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher’s offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell. "
113 " didn’t matter. "
114 " Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I’m Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture. "
115 " Broaden your horizons. They’re the only ones you’ll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible. "
― Jennifer Crusie , Anyone But You
116 " The attendant opened the door, and the faint barking Nina had heard before became frantic and shrill. Nina stepped into the concrete cell block and stopped, blown out of her self-absorption by the row of gray metal cages where dogs barked to get her attention. She let her breath out, horrified. “Oh, God, this is awful.” “Spay your pets.” The attendant stopped in front of the next to last cage. “Here you go.” She jerked her head again. “Perky.” Nina "
117 " There was something about having a plan for dinner, a recipe in hand, that made her feel much less hostile about food. "
118 " Sometimes stories are just previews of coming truths. "
― Jennifer Crusie , The Cinderella Deal
119 " He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who’d ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who’d ever belonged where she hadn’t. My mama warned me about guys like you. He "
120 " Infatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can’t know you’ve found the right person until you’ve worked your way through it. You quit "
― Jennifer Crusie , Bet Me