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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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It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

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Fun, Self, People

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A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

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Mother, Tree, Saws

Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Maybe This Time”, p.4, Macmillan

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When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.

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Apples, Dumb, Paradise

Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.133, Macmillan

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That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. (Linc Blaise)

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Father, Forget, Donors

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It's just that you don't respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn't count or its's no good. Well, I don't want what you want. And I don't see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care?

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Mean, Long, Live Your Life

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As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

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Men, Good Man, Lasts

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Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

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Dog, Keys, Bars

Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.353, Macmillan

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Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.

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Husband, Thinking, Men

Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.308, St. Martin's Griffin

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I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.

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Mother, Sex, Father

Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.682, Macmillan

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Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this. "Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good." "Our odds are too good

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Believe, Heart, Odds

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If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

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Inspirational, Dance, Example

Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.17, Macmillan

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There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.

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Gratitude, World, Drink

Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.355, Macmillan

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Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

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Thinking, Ice Cream, Talking

Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.114, Macmillan

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