Janet Evanovich: Goodness

“Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.”

“The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.”

“This is war,' I yelled through the door.
Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.”

“It's a penis,' Grandma said. 'Stephanie got it in the mail. It's a pretty good one too.”

“There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing."
Ranger”

“He's a good man," Ranger said.
"And you?"
"I'm better.”

“Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.”

“Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.”

“Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator."
Stephanie Plum”

“Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.”

“I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset."
Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.”

“When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.”