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Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18) QUOTES

Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18) QUOTES

1 " Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

2 " I sent Hal and Rafael to keep an eye on you, and I went to check on a commercial account in Whitehorse. Rafael called to tell me Lula went in with a rocket launcher, so I skipped Whitehorse. I pulled into the lot seconds before you destroyed Billings Foods. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

3 " He had a body like batman "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

4 " It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

5 " 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. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

6 " I was completely out of clean clothes. That meant I could be a slut and sleep naked , or I could be a slob and sleep in what I was wearing. Truth is, I'm not entirely comfortable sleeping naked. I do it from time to time, but I worry that God might be watching or that my mother might find out, and I'm pretty sure they both think nice girls should wear pyjamas to bed. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

7 " I'd do the lifting, but I just got a manicure. And I notice you don't have a manicure at all. Only thing noticeable about your hands is the missing tan on your ring finger that I don't care about. -Lula "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

8 " Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: "Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

9 " You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over the world eating kangaroo a**holes and snail throw-up. He'd eat anything. He don't care how sick he gets. He's another one of my role models, except he needs ironing. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

10 " Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

11 " It was so much easier when I was young. You got a boyfriend, and you married him. You had some kids, you got older, one of you died, and that was it.''Jeez. No true love?' 'There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

12 " Ranger removed my goggles. “Would you like to come home with me?” I stepped away from him. “Thank you for the offer, but no. I’m done with men.” Ranger smiled. “Forever?” “Until I figure some things out.” “And if you don’t figure them out?” “If I can’t figure them out on my own, I’ll ask you to help me.” “Babe, that’s like the blind leading the blind. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

13 " Ranger transferred the messenger bag from his shoulder to mine, pulled me into him, and kissed me like he meant it. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

14 " There was a lot of swearing and ineffective bitch-slapping, "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

15 " It’s good to have a Ranger,” Lula said. “He’s like a personal Spidey. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

16 " photograph?” “Information "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

17 " This makes you real special,” Lula said. “It’s like you’re a reality show, all by yourself. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

18 " When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said:
"She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

19 " [Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love"
[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)

20 " DeAngelo blew up my bus, so I filled his car with shit. Genius, right?"
"DeAngelo didn't blow up the bus," Connie said. "I just got the report from the fire marshal. The coffeemaker shorted out and started the fire."
Some of the color left Vinnie's face. "Say what?"
"Oh man," Lula said. "DeAngelo is gonna be pissed. Least he won't know who did it."
"I left a note," Vinnie said.
Lula gave a hoot of laughter and fell off her chair. "

― Janet Evanovich , Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)