Jana Deleon Quotes

#1. It said a lot about the choices you made in life when jogging actually lowered your heart rate. By

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#2. Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once.

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#3. Emma ended the call and slipped her phone back into

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#4. A hooker, a truck driver, and a nun walk into a hotel," Ida Belle said. "There's the start of a bad joke.

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#5. And that pissed me all the way off.

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#6. Pity was for those who couldn't do anything about it.

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#7. According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.

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#8. Should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.

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#9. Ida Belle nodded. All sorts of things rose out of the ground during Edgar. Why, my mother's coffin popped straight up out of the grave and cruised down Main Street. I always said you couldn't keep Moter down

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#10. I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

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#11. Facebook had to be the biggest playground for self-absorbed assholes that the world had ever seen.

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#12. Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?

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#13. I looked right into the face of pure evil. And the worst part is, it wasn't the enemy.

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#14. She cried for herself - the life she'd never bothered to live and had almost lost - and the realization that she still had an opportunity to change it all before it was too late.

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#15. One time," Gertie said. "You go out into a hurricane one time and you never hear the end of it.

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#16. Are you going to sit down?" Ida Belle asked. "Or am I supposed to drive down the bayou with you up there looking like a Jackie Chan hood ornament?

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#17. Ida Belle took a pair and popped them in her ears. "She's right," she yelled. "That siren is horribly loud. Sounds like a dinosaur-sized cat wailing." I stuck one earplug in and nodded. I already needed them if Ida Belle was going to keep yelling.

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#18. I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?"
"Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.

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#19. As much as choice could sometimes be a burden, not having one was far worse.

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#20. It was a bunch of explanations but not an excuse. The bottom line is that no matter why I did the things I did, I always had a choice in doing them.

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#21. Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.

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#22. wasn't any place on my body I

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#23. Forrest Gump had gotten it all wrong. Life wasn't a box of chocolates. It was a box of ex-lax, and I felt like I'd consumed the entire thing.

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#24. Despite all the confidence I had in my ability to do my job, I hadn't had any in myself as a person.

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#25. relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

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#26. Maryse stared. "You hear her, too?" Luc grimaced. "Unfortunately. Why do you think I looked behind you when

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#27. I don't know whether to be happy he's made my job so easy," Carter said, "or pissed off that someone that stupid not only roams the earth, but lives in my hometown.

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#28. Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

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#29. Sometimes playing it safe can be just as bad as taking risks.

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#30. Ladies don't shake hands," She said finally.

"I'm sorry," I said as I drew my hand back. "No one told me you were a lady.

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#31. Remember that incident in Egypt with the #No. 2 pencil?" "Don't be ridiculous," I snapped. "That was a Pentel, not a #No. 2.

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#32. Asking that woman to take a sideline seat is like asking Johnny Depp to stop being hot.

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#33. She didn't like gardening or cleaning, so she wasn't about to have 'shit that needed watering or dusting' around her place.

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#34. I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday - successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.

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#35. The idiot wrote that message on his utility bill.

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#36. It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella.

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