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1 " This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed. "
― Rob Thomas , Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars, #2)
2 " Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering. "
3 " Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses. "
4 " Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness. "
5 " I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill. "
6 " Congratulations, Veronica. You just ordered your first call girl. "
7 " Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal. "
8 " In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface. "
9 " In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back. "
10 " I’m beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory. "
11 " Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right. "
12 " Who’s a big fierce monster dog? Who’s a bloodthirsty hound from Hell? It’s you. Yes it is. "
13 " She already knew that he’d decided to leave—knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her. "
14 " She didn't want to be in their club. Didn't want to learn how to be apart from the one person she longed to see every day. "
15 " What do you think? More cheese? Less cheese? Different cheese?” Keith held up a measuring cup of shredded mozzarella and looked inquiringly at Veronica across the kitchen island. She was slicing tomatoes but paused mid chop to look up with one raised brow. “When is the answer ever less cheese?” “Fair point.” He dumped the entire cup into the mixing bowl and started to stir. "
16 " have I heard that grief softens the mind, and makes it fearful and degenerate; think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.’” Veronica wasn’t sure which play the quote was from, but she knew exactly what it meant: You get tough. You get even. You get tough. Had Mars Investigations been the sort of outfit that bothered to draft a list of its “Core Values,” that would’ve been a top fiver. "
17 " When is the answer ever less cheese? "
18 " You couldn't think of a single thing to do for her? Not with all your supposed ingenuity, your willingness to see the rules as profoundly optional? "
19 " I'm with Logan, and I love him more than I thought I could love a man, and we have the opportunity to to be happy in spite of everything and I can't throw all that away for something more convenient. "
20 " You always have a choice," she spat. "You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting. "