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In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin__ roofline a bursting fireball.

Just the night before, a puma__ howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn__ get any richer than that.

He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall. -- Least Wanted

I've never been a morning person, and if it's one thing I don't need before my first cup of coffee, it's a visit from the cops. But at eight forty-five on a Friday morning, two of them waited for me at my law office.

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

Get a load of this, Frank._ Gerald Peyton__ pause set off his pronouncement. __he is expecting to get a wedding ring.___hat__ understandable,_ I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cleared. Diamond rings__ore sold in December than in any other month of the year__ent for a cool grand per karat. Weeks ago, I__ priced them__gain__or my domestic situation. __hat seems to be the problem?___hat__ a big leap for me to make.___ expect you__l make it with room to spare.

A diamond wedding ring, you say?__ studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. __s any guy would expect, a diamond is what she__ after,_ I said. __id you hold out hope you__ get by for anything less?

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

I let my gaze travel out the picture window. Unlike at my old doublewide trailer perched on the fringe of a played out quarry, here I owned a real yard with real grass that screamed for mowing each Monday a.m. I sat at the kitchen table, cooling off from just having finished this week's job. Yes, here in 2005, I was a full-fledged suburbanite, but I'd been called worse.

Quote taken from Chapter 1: That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.

Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami

My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (__nly You Can Prevent Forest Fires!_) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there__ be real hell to pay.

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?