Nina Post Quotes

#1. Shawn rested his head against the seat then turned to talk to Sarah. "It's your birthday tomorrow." "Ruby Tuesday's thought it was three months ago." "Ruby Tuesday's has a touch of dementia.

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#2. The neighbor, Andy Tunks, called it in at 6:17 a.m. The victim didn't show up for a morning jog.

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#3. Friendship is a sheltering tree." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#4. You just finished a job, as you refer to it. You must be tired and I can only imagine the enervating quality of an added threat of the state pen."

"California's state pen is Fisher," Cat said. "It can write upside down, but I think a pencil works better for that.

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#5. She wondered if that's what he said whenever people asked him where he was from. 'The front desk.' Then the person would ask, But where is your family from? And Marcus would answer, 'The front desk.

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#6. He took the laser pointer off the side table and flicked it on, dancing its red light over the wall. Comet finished eating then walked over like he wasn't really interested, like he just happened to be passing by, but then went predictably crazy.

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#7. Danger!" Shawn heard, and automatically thought, Will Robinson. Old habit.

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#8. Jerry shifted the clipboard to his side as he rested his fists on his hips, as though to attest to his in-chargeness.

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#9. When he got home, Comet ran out of the kitchen and snaked around his ankles then pranced back over to the kitchen.

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#10. We can finally start translating the book," Cate said. "At least, I think we can."

"A rousing call, not dissimilar from the band of brothers speech in Henry V." [reply from Noah]

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#11. Darcy was afraid to slow down, Shawn thought. If she wasn't working, wasn't busy, the bad stuff would catch up to her. But if she kept moving and focusing on work, she could fend it off.

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#12. What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure.

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#13. True, he didn't know what his Dad would have been like if he hadn't been in Vietnam,

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#14. Jasper's mother had died while he was a junior in high school --

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#15. Ashburn gestured dramatically. "Look, I can't explain the psychology behind it. All I know is, it's more satisfying to get the jelly beans with an office supply order. They just taste better when they arrive in the same box as four hundred legal pads.

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#16. He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV.

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#17. It was more likely that Comet would be governor of Pennsylvania. Shawn hoped his cat wouldn't forget him once he got into a position of power like that.

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