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My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.- Charley DavidsonDarynda Jones
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He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.Darynda Jones
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For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.Darynda Jones
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As we sat there, the door opened, just barely, and a hand slid inside and dropped a set of keys on a side table." Thanks, Garrett! " I called out. He gave me a thumbs-up and closed the door." How do you suppose he knew we were performing sexual favors on each other?" I asked, snuggling against my man again." Possibly because you screamed my name about seven times.Darynda Jones
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Have you slept yet?'' Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.'' Didn't you drive there?'' Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.'- Charley & CookieDarynda Jones
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Did you catch the time-of-great-suffering thing?” Her expression softened. “Can you just make sure I’m not around when it happens?”“ No can do, ” I said, strolling back to my office with a negating wave of my hand. “If I have to suffer, then so does everyone else within a ten-mile radius.” She pursed her lips. “What ever happened to taking one for the team?”“ Was never much of a team player.”“ Sacrificing yourself for the greater good?”“ Not that into human sacrifice.”“ Suffering in silence?” I stopped and turned back to her, my eyes narrowing accusingly. “If I have to suffer, I’ll be screaming your name at the top of my lungs the whole time. You’ll be able to hear me all the way to Jersey, mark my words.”- Charley to Cookie .Darynda Jones
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Gemma Davidson, ” she answered, her voice as groggy as I felt. “Where are you?” I asked. “Who is this?” “Elvis.” “What time is it?” “Hammer time?” “Charley.” “Did you text me? Did your car break down?” “No and no. Why are you doing this to me?” She was funny. “Check your cell.” I heard a loud, sleepy sigh, some rustling of sheets, then, “It won’t come on.” “Not at all?” “No. What did you do to it?” “I ate it for breakfast. Check the battery compartment.” “Where the hell is that?” “Um, behind the battery door.” “Are you punking me?” I heard her fumbling with the phone. “Gem, if I was going to punk you, I wouldn't simply turn off your phone. I would pour honey in your hair while you slept. Or, you know, something like that.” “That was you?” she asked, appalled. .Darynda Jones
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Does Uncle Bob have anything?"" I heard he has an STD.""I mean on the women."" Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.Darynda Jones
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If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast. That woman could not make toast.Darynda Jones
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There's another part, an obstinate part, that wants more. That wants Dutch live and in the flesh. That wants her hand. Her mouth. Her hips under mine. It wants all of her. Every last ounce. Body and soul.Darynda Jones
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The regular I both feared and salivated to see was names Reyes Farrow. Where others exuded aggression, deception, and insecurity, he literally dripped confidence, sex, and power. Mostly sex.Darynda Jones
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I still had my hand on his side, careful not to press. He reached out and hooked a finger into the belt loop on my jeans. It felt so natural, so fulfilling, to be there with him. To talk with him as if we did it everyday. As if we'd been doung it every day for years. Not even the heat of Ian's fury could penetrate the warmth I was getting from Reyes.Darynda Jones
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I essentially killed those men. Am I slated for hell?" He stepped to me. Put his fingers underneath my chin. Raised it until our gazes locked. "You're a god, Dutch. And the reaper. You don't get slated. You are the slate.Darynda Jones
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You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why." Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out."" The interest alone is going to kill you."" What do you charge?"" Three hundred eighty-seven percent."" Is that ethical?"" It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.Darynda Jones
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The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.Darynda Jones
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Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elicits empathy, promotes learning, creates an intellect you simply cannot get from any other medium. For me, it is air.Darynda Jones
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You know?” he asked.“ Yes. I know what I am.”“ You — you do?”“ I’m a time traveler.Darynda Jones
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I could’ve knocked the shit out of her .She’d have good reason to roll her eyes then. But knocking the shit out of rude people wasn’t my style. Heckling them every chance I got was. Hopefully she’d screw up soon. I didn’t have all day.Darynda Jones