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1 " I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, " but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down." I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file. "
2 " You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. " Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym. "
3 " I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said.Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney-assed old white woman,” Lula said. “So I guess this works out good. "
― Janet Evanovich , Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)
4 " As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. " That's a rocket launcher!" " Yep," Lula said. " It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects. "
5 " He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you grew interested against your will, and before you knew it, you were so well informed, so opinionated about the facts of the case, you would have been unfit to sit on a jury. "
6 " He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes sometimes did, through the detritus of their interrupted lives. "
― , The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
7 " If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys. "
― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child
