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Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1) QUOTES

Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1) QUOTES

1 " Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

2 " I pictured Cupid sitting in a crappy little bar, drunk and depressed, while he moaned to the bartender, "That Jasmine Parks, gods, she pisses me off! Did you see what she just did? Totally blew off this immortal stud to play kiss-the-boo-boo with a fickle little rent-a-cop. Why? 'Cause she's the biggest chickenshit on the planet! I'm ready to toss my bow and pick up a bazooka! "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

3 " Unbelievable. After what just
happened between us no, I don’t have any right. None at all. We’re barely a
couple. We’re not even sleeping together. I have to-"
What in God’s name are you babbling about?"
"You’re cheating on me!"
"I never cheat. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

4 " I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

5 " Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

6 " Sounds good. Drive safe."
He sighed, knowing I really meant, "Take care of my Mercedes. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

7 " Apparently you don't have to observe the Rules of Etiquette when reuniting with a muderous spouse. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

8 " Okay, okay, backing off. Um, I suppose this would be a bad time to ask you to talk to Pete for me, you know, about the car?'
His eyes widened. I could almost hear him thinking, Of all the nerve! 'You were driving,' he said.
'But he likes you so much better than me.'
'That is because I do not keep wrecking the rentals. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

9 " Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

10 " The white-haired wonder leading what had to, by now, be a blocks-long parade must've finally turned on her hearing aid. Because she finally pulled into the United Methodist Church parking lot, praise God, leaving the rest of us free to party until some other octogenarian found it necessary to take to the streets after dark. In Ohio, old folks know better than to drive at night. Yet another reason Cleveland rocks. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

11 " They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire."

I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

12 " Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

13 " You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear.

"Well it all goes back to my childhood…." I began, "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

14 " As I was leaving, a door opened and a man looked out. I got the feeling we were having a mutual oh-crap-you're-not-supposed-to-see-me reaction. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

15 " It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor in New Orleans, and I was sure that somewhere in Alaska some poor Inuit had just taken a tumble from his sled for the very same reason. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

16 " It's vampire Barbie" ……….. "get a load of this," I said, " perfect makeup, perfect nails, perfect figure --- it makes me want to shove her head-first into a steaming pile of horse crap. Why is it you can never find a mounted police when you need one?" ……
"your ….late….wife?" I whispered.

Vayl nodded, just a slight jerk of his head. " She died. Then she killed me. Ergo…. Late wife. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

17 " WHAT?!" I felt the prickling along my scalp that signaled Big Anger. I wished I was the Queen of Hearts so I could just order my little card soldiers to cut off Albert's head. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)

18 " Whatever happened to 'Hey, how are you?' 'Long time, no see.' Apparently you don't have to observe the rules of etiquette when reuniting with a murderous spouse. "

― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1)