01c. 1991 ADNobody 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.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
02c. 1991 ADYou want sensitive and understanding, stick with the therapist.You want great,headbanging sex, get off the fucking phone and come with me.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
03c. 1991 ADHis sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
04c. 1991 ADHeartache often drives us to consume things we wouldn't otherwise, such as an entire pint of Caramel Pecan Perfection high-fat ice cream, covered in ganache, the crack cocaine of frozed dairy. Twelve hundred calories per pint, six hundred and eighty of which are fat calories, but is only dulls the pain for the moment, there's that carb fog while you're standing at the sink shoving it in your face, and then it's over and you feel...used. Like a cheap pickup the Dove people seduced and abandoned in your kitchen, leaving you with sticky hands and an empty cup and a still-broken heart, except now you're mad at Dove, too.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
05c. 1991 ADEmilio appeared with wine before Cal could say anything, and Min beamed at him, grateful for the rescue. "Emilio, my darling. I forgot to mention cake boxes. Two hundred cake boxes.""Already on it," Emilio said. "Nonna said you'd need them. She said to get four-inch-square boxes for three-inch-square cakes.""I'm getting the boxes," Min said, nodding. "Sure. Great. Fine. Your grandmother is an angel and you are my hero. And of course, a genius with food.""And you are my favorite customer." Emilio kissed her cheek and disappeared back into the kitchen."I love him," she told Cal."I noticed," Cal said. "Been seeing him behind my back, have you?""Yes," Min said. "We've been having conversations about cake.""Whoa," Cal said. "For you, that's talking dirty.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
06c. 1991 ADBet you ten bucks we make it."What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this."Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good.""Our odds are too goodJennifer Crusie / quote ↗
07c. 1991 ADI could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She wouldn’t do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end. Also people didn’t do things like that in Southern Ohio. A sawed-off shotgun, that was the ticket.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
08c. 1991 ADNorth is a powerful man, and you're still connected to him." Flo frowned. "Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you're a Fish. You'll end up back in bed with him."Andie slammed the car door. "You know what I'd like for Christmas, Flo? Boundaries. You can gift me early if you'd like.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
09c. 1991 ADWhen Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
10c. 1991 ADSay, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ”“Oh, please.”“Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ”“I don’t think so.”“Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ”“I’m out of here.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
11c. 1991 ADOf course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
12c. 1991 ADFeel 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.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
13c. 1991 ADThis is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—"“Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
14c. 1991 ADIt's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- CynthiaJennifer Crusie / quote ↗
15c. 1991 ADYou have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
16c. 1991 ADI'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
17c. 1991 ADI suppose you had to," Wes said when Phin went back to join him at the table."Pretty much. She seduced me.""Yeah, right," Wes said. "She said, 'Please fix the kitchen drain,' and you interpreted that--""She said, 'Fuck me.' " Phin put two balls on the table and picked up his cue. "I interpreted that to mean she wanted sex.""Oh." Wes picked up his cue. "That would have been my call, too." He squinted at the table. "Why would she have said that?""On a guess? Because she wanted sex.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
18c. 1991 ADSophie 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.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
19c. 1991 ADLife is more than great sex and a nice car.” “Well, yeah. But not a lot more.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
20c. 1991 ADNo, this wasn’t just about sex, but for the next hour or so, it was going to be mostly about sex.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
21c. 1991 ADYou know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together.""I am," Jake said, turning back to the lake. "Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it.""Is that why you gave them up?" Will asked, sympathetically. "Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
23c. 1991 ADWho was the moron on the phone?""Carl Avery," Kate said. "A long-standing client and potential felon.Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
24c. 1991 ADWhat happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?Jennifer Crusie / quote ↗
