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1 " Life in DC wasn’t for the faint of heart. Or poorly connected. "
― Rachel Grant , Evidence Series Box Set: Volume 1 (Evidence, #1-3)
2 " Today he was Matthew McConaughey hot. “Sugar, I’ll appreciate you.” She glanced sideways at Mara. “You pretty, honey, but you ain’t no Angelina Jolie. A man like him might stray if you don’t take care of him. And I’m just the sort of woman to take in strays. "
3 " I’ll pay you back. I just can’t access my own money right now…” “I know, love. Don’t worry about it.” Love. The word had slipped out—naturally. "
4 " So maybe brains she had, but judgment of character? Not so much. "
5 " Ironic that after years of devoting her life to bringing lost US servicemen and women home, it was unlikely her body would return to American soil. "
6 " You worked hard at Stanford. You earned your degrees, and no one can take that from you. But you didn’t get there on your own merit. Your uncle made it happen. And what he did was illegal. "
7 " You are standing inside a private jet loaned to the US government for your extraction from North Korea. I have spent eighteen of the last twenty-two hours on this jet during a week in which I do not have an hour—let alone twenty-two—to spare, so I could save you from a situation I have every reason to believe you caused. That is where you stand. "
8 " Christ, is there a man in your life you haven’t idealized? "
9 " Curt Dominick had a reputation for being driven, ruthless in the courtroom, and cold in general. Rav had also told Keith that the man had studied karate with the same dedication he’d studied law, and after thirty years was a seventh-degree black belt who kicked Rav’s ass during sparring about half the time. "
10 " You served in the Navy for nearly thirteen years and completed multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Your life experience is worth ten times my PhD. "
11 " He’d misjudged her, but then, she’d misjudged him too. "
12 " She set the coin in the loose soil and whispered her thanks to the man who’d given his life to prevent the US from committing a wartime atrocity. "
13 " I’m thinking Treen didn’t get laid last night. What do you think, Mara?” “If she did, it was awful,” Mara replied. “So which is it? Did you drink too much to enjoy the show, or did he have trouble?” She grinned. “That could explain the roses. "
14 " Sorrow for the man who fidgeted at the table filled her. His service to his country had resulted in trauma that led to pain and mental breakdown, which he’d failed to remedy with drugs. And now the man, who was once the best of the best, was a shell that symbolized the lowest of the low. "
15 " He’d always had a thing for brainy chicks. "
16 " Curt Dominick, you might actually be a nice man.” He winked at her. “Don’t tell anyone. You’ll ruin my reputation. "
17 " His neat-freak tendencies were a decided turn-on, and she made a mental note to clean her apartment before inviting him over, because she had a feeling her habits would have the opposite effect on him. "
18 " I don’t give a crap if the pope sent you on orders from the president. I’m not telling you shit about a place I’ve never been. "
19 " Pre-North Korea Mara would have seen Curt Dominick as an interesting challenge. Post-North Korea Mara didn’t have the emotional wherewithal for challenges. "
20 " Maybe his interest in the historian was only because he was bored. But at least she’d given him a reason to get out of bed this morning. Unemployment was for shit. He needed to do something. "