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

Jennifer Crusie

#Kitchen Quotes #Want Quotes #Midnight Quotes

“Prayer is continual abandonment to God.”
“When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.”
“There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.”
“I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.”

Source : 'The Jumblies' (1871)
“I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.”
“Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.”
“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?”

Source : Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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