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

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  Inspirational, Warning, Example

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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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• have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to? just turn over everything you had? -Davy Dempsey-

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  Giving, Mets, Turns

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• Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.

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  Dragons, Perfectly Normal, Trying

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• I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.

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  Believe, Work Out, Ifs

  Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann, Emilie Rose, Rachel Lee, Beverly Barton (2010). “Blogger Bundle Volume VIII: SBTB's Harlequins That Hooked You: Anyone But You\Prince Joe\The Millionaire's Indecent Proposal\An Officer and a Gentleman\Keeping Annie Safe”, p.185, Harlequin

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• Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said, outraged. "Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you." Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it.

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  Cat, Glasses, Broken

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.251, Macmillan

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• Real life doesn't have to suck.

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  Real, Real Life

  Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann, Emilie Rose, Rachel Lee, Beverly Barton (2010). “Blogger Bundle Volume VIII: SBTB's Harlequins That Hooked You: Anyone But You\Prince Joe\The Millionaire's Indecent Proposal\An Officer and a Gentleman\Keeping Annie Safe”, p.184, Harlequin

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• Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.

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  Gun, Lunch, Needs

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.122, St. Martin's Press

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• We're going to need a bigger dock

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  Needs, Docks, Bigger

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

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  Christ, Dori

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• That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

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  Cost, Furniture, Youth

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “The Cinderella Deal”, p.109, Bantam

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• She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.

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  Arms, Shirts, Middle

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.385, Macmillan

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• What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in my genes. Like self raising flour. i'm going to pouf." "thats going to work out well for me," Cal said. "because i'm going to grow up to be one of those horny old men who chases chubby old ladies around the couch.

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  Growing Up, Men, Self

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• Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.

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  Hurt, Pain, Fire

  Jennifer Crusie (2003). “What the Lady Wants”

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