One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)

by Janet Evanovich

“I’m a pretty low guy, Steph. That’s why I’ve got this neat job. I’m capable of most anything.”

Lenny Gruber, repo man.

Grandma Mazur

I have never liked the portrayal of old people as lecherous.

it was nine o’clock. The day had started without me.

Happens to me from time to time.

Morelli shot worked for Benito Ramirez.

Morelli shot Ziggy Kulesza and Benito Ramirez is a boxer.

“You should learn to make slipcovers,” she said to me. “There’s always a need for slipcovers.”

Is there? Do people still use slipcovers? Grandma Mazer to Stephanie, page 36

rechecked the address from the page I’d torn out of my phone book,

Nowadays we check our cell phone!

Stephanie’s mother is named Helen? How did I miss that?

women’s rights aren’t worth dick if they mean I can’t ask a man to do my bug squashing.

Actually, I get it. I did have my male friends get rid of bugs in my apartment.

Anyone who has ever left their car in long-term parking at Newark Airport knows how to remove the distributor cap.

I need to learn this.

Henry Higgins

From the play My Fair Lady.

My body was not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive car and drive.

This is also my design.

several very creditable women have come forward to testify against Ramirez.”

Credibility is important but it’s unfortunate that some people, like Lula, don’t have it but have been wronged.