Darynda Jones Quotes - Page 7

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• Charley: If you‘re not going to tell me where you are, if you‘re not going to trust me to help you, then why are you here? Why bother? Reyes: Because you‘re the reason I breathe.

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  Helping, Trust Me, Breathe

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• Sorry. i just can't seem to help myself. My brain is freaking out. Two predawn mornings in a row. It doesn't know what to think, how to act. I'll have a talk with it later. Perhaps get it some counseling.

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  Morning, Sorry, Thinking

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.128, Macmillan

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• You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords." "Only for you.

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  Tendencies, Spinal Cord, Severe

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• Charley talking to Cookie ‘'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication and steal all the bedpans?'' ‘’Yes'' I said wondering what I was walking into ''That’s going to be you!'' She was probably right, if I live that long

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  Home, Nursing, Talking

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• You’re just using me for my body.” “You don’t have a body,” I’d remind him. “Throw that in my face.” “Technically, you don’t have a face either.

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  Body, Faces, Using Me

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.228, St. Martin's Press

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• I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.

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  Mean, Men, Sweat

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.148, Macmillan

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• He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through.

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  Chocolate, Heroin, Covered

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.37, Macmillan

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• I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality.

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  Color, White, Personality

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Death, Doom, and Detention”, p.19, Macmillan

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• You rented the apartment with a dead guy in the corner?” I shrugged. “I wanted the apartment, and I figured I could cover him up with a bookcase or something.

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  Guy, Bookcases, Apartment

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I'll call if I break a leg or get eaten by a bear." "Play like a rock." "Now?" "No, if a bear starts eating you." I thought for a moment before replying. "Do they have screaming, sobbing rocks, 'cause that's probably what I'll be doing if a bear is gnawing my arm off." "It would be difficult to just lay there and be eaten alive, huh?" "Ya think?

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  Thinking, Break A Leg, Rocks

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• Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested

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  Uncles, Children, Coffee

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.36, Macmillan

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• For one week, all I could think about was drinking margaritas--well, that and running my tongue along Reyes's teeth--but I didn't have salt--or Reyes's teeth. I'd also lacked the energy to leave my apartment to get some--or the desire to stoop low enough to beg Reyes to let me lick his teeth after what he did--so I could only wish for a margarita. And dream of Reyes's teeth. I'd secretly hoped a margarita would magically appear in my hand, but that would mean I would have to put down the remote, and God knew that was not going to happen.

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  Running, Dream, Drinking

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

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• Amber, you could never embarrass me." "Never?" she asked. "Never." "One time, I yelled across the store to Mom and asked her if she wanted the regular or the super-absorbent tampons. I added that, according to the box, the super-absorbent were for those heavy days. Then I asked her to rate her heaviness on a scale of one to ten." "Okay, you could." "Then while we were standing in line, I asked her why she was buying three boxes of Summer's Eve in the middle of winter." I set her at arm's length. "Wow." "I know, right? I had no idea a person could turn so red.

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  Summer, Mom, Winter

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.150, St. Martin's Press

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• Where have you been?" I stepped into my apartment and met Uncle Bob's glare with one of my own. "Out trying to pass myself off as a movie producer to get hot guys to sleep with me. Where have you been?

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  Uncles, Sleep, Guy

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.114, Macmillan

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• "I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide to elope to Las Vegas where Jared uses his powers to clean up at the poker tables and you guys buy a mansion in the Manzano Mountains with twenty-seven rooms and decide - because you're rich and all - to buy a new computer, can I have your iMac then?"... "Um, no, you're not getting my iMac." "Dang."

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  Thinking, Vegas, Guy

  "Death and the Girl Next Door". Book by Darynda Jones, 2012.

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• Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick.

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  Men, Wheels, Wanted

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.241, Macmillan

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• You’re the reason I breathe

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  Breathe, Reason

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.606, St. Martin's Press

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• You were the one who hit me on the roof? I hit you on the jaw. We just happened to be on a roof at the time.

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  Roof, Happened

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• I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.

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  Vader, Desks, Capacity

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Okay, I’ll put someone on it. But you know, the Albuquerque Police Department wasn’t really created to find things out for you.” “Really? That’s weird.

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  Police, Albuquerque, Okay

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Oh, my god!” I said to Reyes, my eyes radiating accusations at him. “She took your picture? Just what kind of game are you playing? You’re under arrest, mister.” His mouth tilted and a dimple emerged on one cheek as I took his wrist and threw him against a wall. Or, well, urged him toward it. I held him against the cool wood with one hand and frisked him with the other.

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  Wall, Eye, Hands

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.

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  Two, Sitting Down, Doe

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?

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  Uncles, Skanks, Mouths

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.100, Macmillan

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• We really should get some X-rays,” the EMT said. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT.

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  Rays, Body, Want

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.128, Macmillan

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• There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest." I raised my chin. "I don't love you either." He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. "Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I'm near you is certainly not disinterest." "That doesn't mean it's love." "It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you'll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you're in love.

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  Hate, Believe, Love You

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