Troublemaker Quotes
"I don’t want anything that stimulates my appetite or makes food look good. I want something calm and soothing . . . you know, so I’ll stay away from it."
"A legitimate reason for eating ice cream? There is a God!"
"Even I wouldn’t have sent anyone dangerous. Let me amend that: he isn’t dangerous to you."
"If he has a killer stalking him, I won’t endanger the people around here. I just won’t."
"It won’t work," she said flatly. "If he has a killer stalking him, I won’t endanger the people around here. I just won’t."
"I don’t trust you, which makes me think you’re afraid I’ll see what’s off about this if you give me time to think about it."
"All right," she said, keeping it brief. "But if the money isn’t in my account in two days, I’m putting him on the road."
"I'll be right back," she said, leaving him where he was.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed in guilt.
"Bribes," Bo said. "She's trying to entice you to play with her."
"No, I just want to lie down and rest for a while."
"I thought it was administrative, all the way. And it would have been; jumping in had been her choice, no one had told her to do it."
"Despite Miss Doris’s rejuvenating tea—which had indeed helped settle the jittery feeling—Bo felt tired and drained."
"She wasn’t a recluse by any means, but the whole slightly farcical situation was too chaotic and intense for her to quite get a handle on it."
"I’m not involved in his marriage. Whether or not Emily presses charges is up to her."
"The entire Gooding family was occupied in trash-talking Emily and her family."
"She didn’t enjoy confrontation, but neither did she back down from it."
"She was a solitary person; he got that. She was also candid and open about her past, how she’d ended up here, what she was thinking."
"Kids needed stability, and she hadn’t had that."
"She didn’t want people fussing over her, or thinking she was anything except one hundred percent okay."
"Did things get more normal than beer and pizza?"
"If he could improve one step a day, in two weeks he’d be sleeping in a bed."
"Tricks was an intelligent dog, no doubt about it, but dogs didn’t plot vengeance so he wasn’t worried about it."
"If he were driving in D.C., twelve minutes might take him a couple of blocks, depending on the direction and time of day."
"You’ve come to a good place to get some rest."
"Tomorrow he would try it again, and maybe he could make the seventh step."
"He looked at the woman. He looked at the dog."
"She had to be shitting him—the woman, not the dog."
"He looked back at her, and she turned her head away."
"Nobody cares about a dog, you can’t even sue for ‘emotional harm,’ or anything like that. I looked it up."
"Fuck your father. The problem is, you don’t know who I am."
"You tried to kill the chief. I happen to be real fond of the dog myself."
"I’m a man who knows how to kill you seven ways from Sunday, and I’m just itching to try all those ways out on you."
"I think skinning you alive would give me a lot of pleasure."
"I wasn’t going to let anything happen to either of you."
"I’ve noticed you aren’t a sit-down-and-veg-in-front-of-the-TV kind of woman."
"This has to be what parents feel like when they’re getting it on and then see their kid standing there watching them."
"You’re the hardest woman to court I’ve ever seen."
"How many women would consider someone doing laundry to be courting?"
"I’d rather you punch me in the nose and get it over with."
"She wanted Tricks to be happy and confident every day of her life."
"I’m sending him a text. If the hacker is capturing all his calls and hears my voice, he’ll know it’s all gone to hell and bolt, alert Congresswoman Kingsley."
"I almost had a heart attack. I heard Tricks bark, looked out the window, and saw him jab that barrel against the base of your skull."
"I had some use as a shield. That was the only reason."
"Did you just call me baby? I don’t mind at all. Just let me rest, okay?"
"Then get a washcloth and get some of this blood off me, okay?"
"Tricked me, didn’t you," he said without heat, his touch firm but tender.
"He said, ‘Gloat, why don’t you? 10-4.’ He understands."
"I think I’ll get a tattoo of a bull’s-eye on my neck."
"All right, so ‘Mom’ on my triceps would have been less in-your-face, but the GO-Teams are an in-your-face group of guys."
"Sometimes things just went to hell and there was nothing you could do about it except pick up the pieces and deal with what was left."