Jennifer Crusie Quotes

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• Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

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  Horizon, Sucker, Wide

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Anyone But You”, p.71, HQN Books

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• The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine.

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  Thinking, Smell, Chocolate

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• Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

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  Marriage, Mean, People

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• Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.

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  Love, Real, Leaving

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.569, Macmillan

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• His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

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  Nouns, Verbs, Action

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Charlie All Night”, p.87, HQN Books

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• Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.

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  Good Life, Bus, Who You Are

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• If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

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  Trying, Enough, Havens

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.53, Bantam

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• Once you know the truth, it's always obvious

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  Obvious, Knows

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.301, Macmillan

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• Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.

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  Falling In Love, Crazy, Love You

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• Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.

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  Hands, Trying, Bed

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• Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?

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  Kitchen, Midnight, Body

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2008). “Agnes and the Hitman”, p.25, Macmillan

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• • The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn’t bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens

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  Hurt, Loss, Fighting

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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  Bible, Devil, Roaring

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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• Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.

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  Hurt, Real, Fall

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

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  Bent, Tricks, Crooked

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• He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy.

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  Law, Breathing, Say Anything

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.16, Macmillan

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• That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them.

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  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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• Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

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  Vision, Pressure

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• Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.

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  Brain, Sophie, Bears

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.78, Macmillan

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• It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.

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  Ems, Easier, Said

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Manhunting”, p.213, HQN Books

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• I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to come back and beat you to death with a snow globe.' What happened to "bibbity bobbity boo"?' Cal asked Min. That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary.

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  Boys, Snow, Giving

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.384, Macmillan

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• Zach had brought her a dog.

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  Dog

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• If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

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  Inspirational, Warning, Example

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• You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

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  Past, Optimism, Contentment

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• I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

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  Body, Afterglow, Your Body

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Fast Women”, p.270, Macmillan

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