Jana Deleon Quotes

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

Run! Helena cried and ran down the staircase. Maryse took the steps two at a time, passing Helena on the way, and almost fell as she hit the foyer floor. The scream of police sirens was far too close for comfort, and Maryse struggled to pick up the pace. Skidding on the polished wood, she dashed around the corner and onto the textured tile in the kitchen, where her shoes had a much better grip and she picked up some speed. She ran into the laundry room, shoving down the window where she'd entered the house. Then she rushed out the side door, locking it before she slammed it behind her. She made for the huge hedge of bushes that separated Helena

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Things will get better, right? Isn't that what you always tell the victims - that time heals everything?" "I reckon that's what we say." Emma looked up at him. "You don't think it's true?" Jeremy frowned, his dark eyes troubled. "I don't guess I do. I don't think there's enough time to repair some things. Some things just become part of a person, like their skin color. It doesn't have to define them, but it's always with them.

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.

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?

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.

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.

There wasn't any place on my body I could hide a gun not with that sleazy dress I had to wear. And that shoe had a spike on it. What the hell else is it good for?'
' Jesus, Redding.' Harrison laughed. 'Haven't you seen a movie, a magazine ad ... another woman in public? Stilettos are common among people with oestrogen.'
'Which explains why you know what they are, and I don't. Why don't you play the girl on the next mission? You're obviously better suited

Hey, Gertie, something strange happened last night." Gertie patted my leg. "I'm sure it seemed that way, but things in Sinful are never quite normal compared to other places.

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

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

The idiot wrote that message on his utility bill.

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.

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.

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

Emma ended the call and slipped her phone back into

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

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.

Gertie hit the brakes and tried to stop, but she tripped over a lip in the sidewalk and went sprawling right into the burro, then hit the pavement, her tutu skirt flipped up over her back, exposing her camouflage underwear. Tiny swung his head around to see what all the racket was and launched off the car door, setting off down the sidewalk toward the burro-Gertie wreck at high speed.

Then Gertie kicked Ida Belle under the table and she lifted her gaze to mine.
'I'm sorry I made you ride naked in my car wearing a trash bag,' she said, not sounding the least bit sorry. 'No, you're not,' I said

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

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.

You can't be a member of the Sinful Ladies Society if you have a husband. The original members, like me, are all old maids. We're finally starting to allow widows in, but their husbands have to be dead for at least ten years.
Why ten years?
Seems to take that long to deprogram them from silly man thinking.