That's the Way The Cookie Crumbles Quotes

“Police officer training, thorough as it is, perhaps doesn’t cover situations such as stray flowers and wet blotches. I was glad I hadn’t also been in the pathway of the tumbling vase or I might be walking stiff legged too.”
― Lorena McCourtney, That's the Way The Cookie Crumbles

“wondered if I should hand him a pillow from the sofa for concealing purposes.”
― Lorena McCourtney, That's the Way The Cookie Crumbles

“Younger Officer got to his feet, his back side plastered with flowers like some long-ago flower child about to start singing Kumbaya. Loose, there seemed to be a lot more flowers than there were when in the vase. More water too. He brushed the flowers away with his free hand, but a spray of baby’s breath clung to the hair behind his ear.”
― Lorena McCourtney, That's the Way The Cookie Crumbles

“I had no idea how robot vacuum cleaners were supposed to behave, so I didn’t know if what this one had done today was aberrant robot conduct or not.”
― Lorena McCourtney, That's the Way The Cookie Crumbles

“I saw myself as I’d just been captured for posterity. Little old lady with possum-gray hair falling across her face. Baja T-shirt scrunched up to expose little-old-lady midriff. Toothy shark slipper raised in elderly menace. How soon would the photo show up on the internet? Like a California-road version of those strange “Walmart People” pictures that are always popping up on Facebook. Would I be displayed between a droopy-jeans man bent over to expose a crack the size of the San Andreas fault and an oversized woman bulging out of a thong as she licked a carton of strawberry ice cream?”
― Lorena McCourtney, That's the Way The Cookie Crumbles