Turbo Twenty-Three Quotes

“Mostly Gaylord deals with insurance scamming. He takes a car off a lot and the insurance company pays.” “That’s still stealing.” “I guess, but it’s an insurance company, and everyone hates those people.” “I don’t hate them.” “Well, you’re weird,” Lula said. “Do you like the car?” “I love the car.” “There you go. And by the way, you might want to put a dab of concealer on your nose.” Kranski’s Bar was on the corner of Mayberry Street and Ash. This was a neighborhood very similar to the Burg, but the houses were a little larger, the cars were newer, the kitchen appliances were probably stainless. I parked in the small lot beside the tavern, and Lula and I sashayed into the dim interior. Bertie was working behind the bar that stretched across the back of the room. A bunch of high-top tables were scattered around the front of the room. Two women sat at one of the tables, eating nachos and drinking martinis. At one end of the bar four men were drinking beer and watching the overhead television. I spotted Kenny Morris at the other end. He was alone, nursing what looked like whiskey. Bertie caught my eye, tilted his head toward Kenny, and I nodded back. “I guess that’s the guy you’re looking for,” Lula said. “You want to tag-team him?” “No. I just want to talk to him. I’ll go it alone.” Lula hoisted herself onto a barstool by the four men, and I approached Kenny. “Anyone sitting here?” I asked him. “No,” he said. “No one ever sits there.” “Why not?” “The television is at the other end.” “But you’re here.” “Yeah, I’m not into the team television thing.” He looked a lot like his yearbook photograph. His hair was a little longer. He was slim. Medium height. Pleasant looking. Wearing jeans and a blue dress shirt with the top button open and the sleeves rolled. He was staring at my nose with an intensity usually displayed by dermatologists during a skin cancer exam. I couldn’t blame him. I’d smeared some makeup on it, but even in the dark bar it was emitting a red glow. “It’s a condition,” I said. “It comes and goes. It’s not contagious or anything. Do you come in here often?” “Couple times a week.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“And we’re going to bring him in.” “How are you gonna do that? You got an elephant gun? You got Ranger in the trunk of your car?” “I have you. I’m going to send you into Fat Dave’s and you’re going to charm Winkle.” “That might not be a bad idea,” Lula said. “I am charming. I could charm the ass off him.” “Exactly. And then we convince him that once we get him rebonded he’s going to have a really good time.” “He might even know my reputation,” Lula said. “I was known for doing quality work back in the day. Of course, we aren’t really going to show him a good time. Unless he got some hot qualities. Then I might”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“The problem with all that falling in love was that eventually it had to come to an end, and the end would be painful.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“this long enough and you get to wishing he’d take a poop,” Lula said. We got out of my SUV, and I hung cuffs from my back pocket and stuck a small canister of pepper spray in the other back pocket. Lula was wearing a poison green spandex”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“looked at my watch. Damn. Too early to quit work and start drinking.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“And I was careful to balance out my meal with something from different major food groups. I got fried protein, tasty carbohydrates, and gravy.” “Gravy isn’t a food group.” “Say what?”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three: A fast-paced adventure full of murder, mystery and mayhem

“Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. “You can read, right?” “Yep.” “I always gotta ask these days.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“he hasn’t cut his hair in at least ten years. For all I know that was also the last time he washed it.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“He pulled his nose out of her cleavage and turned to me. “Gaylord Brown,” he said. “It’s the perfect name because I’m gay and I’m brown.”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

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― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“Where’s my candy bar?” Lula asked. “I don’t have”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“Gravy isn’t a food group.” “Say what?”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“together on tiny”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three

“Every time I turn around, Short Stuff got his nose in my business. But”
― Janet Evanovich, Turbo Twenty-Three