Deedeebee

“I once defenestrated a guy. The cops got all pissed off at me. I was drunk, but they said that was no excuse."

"Ah well," Virgil said. Then, "The guy hurt bad?"

"Cracked his hip. Landed on a Prius. Really fucked up the Prius, too."

"I can tell you, just now is the only time in my life I ever heard 'defenestration' used in a sentence," Virgil said.

"It's a word you learn after you done it," Morton said. "Yup. The New Prague AmericInn, 2009."

Virgil was amazed. "Really? The defenstration of New Prague?”
― John Sandford, Mad River

“...in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightning

“We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.”
― Martha Grimes