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41 " My sex life is okay.""Yeah," Morelli said. "But sometimes it's fun to have a partner. "
― Janet Evanovich , Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
42 " You should see me work my magic in leather"Ranger "
43 " You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?"Stuart Bagget "
44 " Your cousin Maureen just got a job at the button factory. They're probably still hiring."Helen Plum "
45 " I shuddered at the mention of Mrs. Steiger."What's that about?" Ranger asked."Mrs. Steiger is the Antichrist.""Damn," Ranger said. "I left my Antichrist gun at home.""Looks like you brought everything else.""Never know when you'll need some tear gas.""If we have to gas Mrs. Steiger, it"ll ruin my chances of being Miss Burg in the Mayflower parade. "
46 " Hey. I know dirty."Vinnie "
47 " I looked around the lot. “Is he dead anywhere nearby?” I really wanted a no on this one. I’d already had my millennium quota of dead. “You see that big bush by the Dumpster?” Jackie said. “Yeah.” “You see that ugly-ass foot sticking out of that big bush?” Oh boy. She was right. There was a foot sticking out of the bush. “Shit, Jackie,” I said. “You didn’t kill that foot, did you?” “No, I didn’t kill that foot. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you. Someone jacked me over. I’ve been sitting out here, freezing my ass off, waiting to kill that sonovabitch Cameron Brown, and someone beat me to it. It isn’t fair! "
48 " Remember, so swashing anyone into the trunk of your car!”“Sure,” Lula said, “I know that "
49 " He shook his head, disgusted like. “You’re impossible. You’re not worth the effort.”I curled my fingers into the front of his T-shirt and hauled him closer. “Not even in your dreams could you imagine how impossible I can be.”We were toe to toe with my br**sts skimming his chest, our eyes locked.“I’ll drink to that,” Morelli said.The third schnapps went down smooth as silk. I gave the empty glass to Morelli and licked my lips.Morelli watched the lip licking, and his eyes darkened and his breathing slowed.Aha! I thought. This was more like it. Got him interested with the old lip-licking routine.“Shit,” Morelli said. “You did that on purpose.”I smiled. Then he smiled.It looked to me like his “gotcha” smile. Like the cat that just caught the canary. Like I’d been had…again.Then he closed the space between us, took my face in his hands and kissed me "
50 " Every time I get social with you I end up all by myself, naked, in the middle of the street.”I rolled my eyes. “That only happened once…and you weren’t naked. You were wearing socks and a shirt.”“I was speaking figuratively. If you want to get specific, what about the time you locked me in a freezer truck with three corpses? What about the time you ran over me with the Buick?”I threw my hands into the air. “Oh sure, bring up the Buick. "
51 " He looked just like himself. Didn't look like he was living in dark alleys. He was clean, fresh shaven. Didn't look hungry. Had on clean clothes. Seemed to be alone. Was a little, um, upset. Said I was a pain in the ass.""No! You? A pain in the ass? I can't imagine why anyone would think that. "
52 " Superheroes are make-believe.""Oh yeah?" Lula said. "What about God?""Hmmmm. "
53 " The obvious reason, of course, was that I was jealous. I didn’t like the obvious reason, so I kept working for another. Finally I gave up in defeat. "
54 " I wasn’t afraid of the dark, but I wasn’t in love with it either. Well, okay, I was afraid of the dark. "
55 " So, is it against the law to shoot someone after he’s already dead?” “Yes, it’s against the law.” I made a small grimace. “I thought it would be. "
56 " What did you ever see in Dickie Orr?” I’d asked myself that same question many times and never found a satisfactory answer. “He had a nice car,” I said. Morelli’s mouth curved. “Seems like a sound basis for marriage. "
57 " So why’d you part ways with this Dickie Orr person?” Lula asked.“He’s a jerk.”“Good enough for me,” she said. “I hate him already. "
58 " Didn’t want to look out of place.” I didn’t want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn’t look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman. "
59 " If she wasn't standing there, I'd grab you and shake you until the fillings fell out of your teeth.""Police brutality.""It has nothing to do with being a cop. It has to a do with being Italian. "
60 " I thought about doing something athletic, like going for a run, but when I looked out the living room window it was still January, so I trashed the physical fitness idea. "