The Great Escape Quotes

“You have a college degree? You can barely talk.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“Be the best at what you're good at”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“NEVER TRUST ANYTHING THAT BLEEDS 5 DAYS A MONTH AND
DOESN’T DIE”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“I like to get input from the ladies when I shop.” He grabbed a navy T-shirt and studied the il ustration, a cartoon drawing of a woman with enormous
breasts and a rocket launcher between her legs.
“That would be a definite no,” she said.
“I like it.” He tossed it over his shoulder and began thumbing through a stack of jeans.
“I thought you wanted my input.”
He stared at her blankly. “Why’d you think that?” She gave up.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“She wanted to stomp her foot, throw a tantrum, throw a punch.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“She frowned at the message on his T-shirt: IT ONLY
SEEMS KINKY THE FIRST TIME.
“It was a gift,” he said.
“From Satan?”
Something that looked almost like a smile flickered across his face and then disappeared. “You don’t like it, you know what you can do about it.” He
cleared another snarl of water hyacinths.
“What if a child saw that shirt?”
“Seen any kids today?” He shifted his weight slightly on the seat. “You’re making me sorry I lost my favorite one.” She turned back to the bow. “I
don’t want to hear.”
“It says, ‘I’m al for gay marriage as long as both bitches are hot.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“Sex with Panda was like being in a porno movie but without a third party involved.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“She smiled, lifted her arm, and tugged on a couple of his pain-in-the-ass curls, her expression tender enough to bring him back to cold reality. He was an ex-cop. She was the president’s daughter. He was scrap metal. She was pure gold. Beyond all that, he had a dead zone a mile wide inside him, while she bubbled with life. “Lucy …”

“Oh lord …” She rolled her eyes and flopped to her back. “Here we go. The speech.” She deepened her voice in exaggerated imitation of him. “Before this goes any further, Lucy, I need to make sure you don’t get the wrong idea. I’m a cowboy, wild and free. No little filly can ever tame a man like me.” She sneered. “As if I’d want to.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“Panda gazed at her plastic-bag pregnancy. “Here I am, about to be a father, and the sex wasn’t even that good.” She fought the urge to apologize.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“I’m a cowboy, wild and free. No little filly can ever tame a man like me.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“El Dorado,”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“garrulousness.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“Typical of those who didn’t know how to deal with their own problems. They poked around in other people’s troubles so they could feel better about themselves.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“She’d told herself she wouldn’t get involved, yet here she was. Typical of those who didn’t know how to deal with their own problems. They poked around in other people’s troubles so they could feel better about themselves. She pocketed the key.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape

“Lucy stiffened. As annoyed as she was with Toby, she didn’t appreciate hearing him addressed as “boy.” Either Big Mike didn’t know or didn’t care how offensive that appellation was to African American males, regardless of their age. If her brother, Andre, had been around, Big Mike would have gotten a big lesson in racial sensitivity.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape