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1 " What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure. "
― Nina Post , The Zaanics Deceit (Cate Lyr, #1)
2 " You just finished a job, as you refer to it. You must be tired and I can only imagine the enervating quality of an added threat of the state pen.""California's state pen is Fisher," Cat said. "It can write upside down, but I think a pencil works better for that. "
3 " And he had lost his focus again. He tried his Skeletor voice, a less frequently used but effective attention-focusing tactic: Skeletor to Shawn Danger! Skeletor to Shawn Danger! Focus, Danger! Skeletor was a shitty life coach, but something about his grating voice could sometimes spur him into action. "
― Nina Post , Danger Returns in Pairs (Shawn Danger Mysteries Book 2)
4 " He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV. "
5 " Friendship is a sheltering tree." Samuel Taylor Coleridge "
6 " He took the laser pointer off the side table and flicked it on, dancing its red light over the wall. Comet finished eating then walked over like he wasn't really interested, like he just happened to be passing by, but then went predictably crazy. "
7 " It was more likely that Comet would be governor of Pennsylvania. Shawn hoped his cat wouldn't forget him once he got into a position of power like that. "
8 " Shawn rested his head against the seat then turned to talk to Sarah. "It's your birthday tomorrow." "Ruby Tuesday's thought it was three months ago." "Ruby Tuesday's has a touch of dementia. "
9 " When he got home, Comet ran out of the kitchen and snaked around his ankles then pranced back over to the kitchen. "
10 " At a clattering noise, Shawn looked up and saw that his captain was roaming and had backed up against a trash bin. Ashburn was easy to spot, with his shock of wavy gray hair and frequent careless flailing. His assistant, a silent and harried woman, scurried after him. She kept her hands out, ready for her boss's next inevitable disaster. "
11 " Ashburn gestured dramatically. "Look, I can't explain the psychology behind it. All I know is, it's more satisfying to get the jelly beans with an office supply order. They just taste better when they arrive in the same box as four hundred legal pads. "
12 " I'm the death investigator," the man said in a dry voice. He was wearing gray chinos, plain black walking sneakers, a tucked-in white short-sleeved polo shirt with a pen inserted on the placket, and a gray windbreaker. His head was slightly over-large and his hair was thinning. If he was going for the look of 'quietly angry engineer who will one day explode,' or 'DI by day, super-villain by night,' he had succeeded. "
13 " Jerry shifted the clipboard to his side as he rested his fists on his hips, as though to attest to his in-chargeness. "
14 " The neighbor, Andy Tunks, called it in at 6:17 a.m. The victim didn't show up for a morning jog. "
15 " The audio system piped Civil War-era piano into the examining room, lending the lab a strangely dichotomous feel of the modern twenty-first century medical facility and the late nineteenth century, when you poured whiskey over a bullet wound and hoped for the best. He could picture himself in a saloon after the end of the Civil War at the same time as he stood in the white and stainless steel lab. "
16 " Danger!" Shawn heard, and automatically thought, Will Robinson. Old habit. "
17 " True, he didn't know what his Dad would have been like if he hadn't been in Vietnam, "
18 " Jasper's mother had died while he was a junior in high school -- "
19 " Darcy was afraid to slow down, Shawn thought. If she wasn't working, wasn't busy, the bad stuff would catch up to her. But if she kept moving and focusing on work, she could fend it off. "
20 " She wondered if that's what he said whenever people asked him where he was from. 'The front desk.' Then the person would ask, But where is your family from? And Marcus would answer, 'The front desk. "
