So, says Jack at at last...you broke up with Connor.Wow. So we're straight to the point. So, I reply defiantly. You decided to stay.Yes, well..., I thought I might take a closer look at some of the...

I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and...

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it.

I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young...

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them...

He'd done his walls with paint from Holy Basil. God, I yearned for their colors. I hadn't been able to afford them myself but I knew their color chart like the back of my hand. His hall was done in...

My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in...

No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it.But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it?Frame it?Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug-and the lights go out!

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

No way that was a act. She really is that gullible. She really is dumb as a sack of moondust.Yet very sweet.Eve rolled her eyes toward him. I think you have to have a penis to get that impression.

How does hanky-panky translate to sex? Who comes up with words like that?" "Probably people who don't have sex

Two different primaries, she continued, striding around the office. Two different cops, and both of them fucked up the case. What are they using to train them in Chicago -- old videos of the Three...

He coordinated his socks and underwear, she commented when Peabody came back in. Colors and patterns. Who does that, and why? I read this article about how what you wear under your clothes is all...

I keep thinking, well, this'll settle down. It's bound to level off and settle down. But it doesn't. Even when things are just going smooth and we're just....living, I can look at you, and I've got no...

Eyes on hers, he flicked her shoulder. Her mouth fell open.She started stomping the floor.What in God's name are you doing? he demanded.Trying to kill the giant tarantula, because the only reason I...

It's a fucking pharmaceutical conspiracy, Eve. We've wiped out just about every known plague, disease, and infection. Oh, we come up with a new one every now and again, to give the researchers...

Where's the hooch-for Dickhead?Fourth-floor gift room.She stared at him for ten silent seconds. We have a gift room?On a half laugh, he shook his head. One day, darling Eve, you really should go...

After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. These nicknames are pissing me off.But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is.It's damn name. And now I have to pee. It's...

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.

When she brought Mira up, Eve gave Roarke another glance. Don't talk to him, she warned. He can get bitchy when he's in this deep. I don't know if we have any of that tea stuff.I had it stocked, and I...

Eve, did you marry me for my money?You bet your ass. And you'd better hold on to it, or I'm historyIt's very sweet of you to say so.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?""Catchy title. I may use it one day.

The logic underlying the truism that one should always travel on a plane with a book is also precisely why bed-and-breakfast culture is to be avoided if at all possible. Namely, you might have to talk...

The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has...