Nancy Mangano > Quotes

“I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a feel-good, fun read. It's like eating a delicious, sinful hot fudge sundae--pure fun and indulgence.”
― Nancy Mangano, A Passion For Prying

“The pup had peed on a Palm Springs golf course, ordered off the menu at Lazy Dog Café and sailed to Catalina Island dressed in a fuchsia bikini. Spoiled in style.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“Come any closer, I’ll blow your little soldier to bits.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“He didn’t need dinner slop to feed his body. He couldn’t recall ever being so filled up.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“ou look much better without those vampy spikes on your feet.” “Proper?” “Shorter.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“Natalie decided she’d be a brunette today. Part of the fun of being a private eye? Dress up. She kept wigs in her bedroom: short brown hair, long red hair, black curls. There were times an investigator depended on a quick disguise, necessary to dig up details, save her life.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“She stared at the center of the target, a face she’d never seen before, but recognized. The image she’d pieced together in her mind of the bastard that murdered her darling Grandpa Anders. She aimed the gun, hands steady, pulled the trigger. Kaboom. Blew his face apart.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“The good looking ones always gave you more trouble than they’re worth.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“Who’d guess I fight crime?”
“Don’t exaggerate. You catch people doing the nasty with people they have no business getting nasty with.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“I can’t help it, Your Honor. Something in my brain ain’t wired right.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“The money felt scratchy, hard against his skin. He wished he had a nice, sensitive woman to share the party with. No one. Tears wet his eyes. He didn’t try to stop them.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“Manipulation and trickery weren’t schemes Natalie preferred to operate by, but she’d used them to solve prior cases with great results.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“People leave Los Angeles because the county is a breeding ground for violent murders. You stay and flourish in Los Angeles because the county is a hotbed for homicides.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Natalie North thought she was all that. He wouldn’t let a good looking private detective take him down. Time to turn the tables, shut this Miss Natalie North up.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“Ramona wore nothing but cherry-scented perfume. Stanley clad only in white cotton crew socks. What’s up with that? Maybe his feet were cold; she didn’t ask.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“So far Ramona hadn’t fixed a thing, other than her hunger to feel like a real woman.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“When I first got put in jail, I went in as a criminal. When I got released from state prison, I came out a hardened crook. You learn from other inmates how to pull off all sorts of illegal activity.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“When you make your bucks of booze and broads, it’s dirty money. Leads to an early grave.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Melvin exited the hardware store, shuffled his feet into the darkness of the night that matched the blackness in his heart.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“This adultery crap had gotten monotonous. Natalie craved cold-blooded offenses to solve, use her brain, test her mettle. The grittier the better.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“One never knows what sins lurk below the surface.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“An airplane hasn’t fallen out of the sky and landed on you, but in the PI world, you face risky business on a daily basis. Don’t let your guard down.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Men get themselves in trouble over the three Bs.  Booze, broads and bucks.  Your competition isn’t booze or broads. Your husband’s lover is bucks.  Your husband has a gambling addiction.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Determined, Natalie stood up, took a firm stance, saw the face she’d pieced together in her mind of bad boy Tobias Trent Rutherford. She fired five consecutive rounds; blew his face away five times.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Maybe it was Natalie’s round, mysterious cocoa colored eyes, the guts it took for a broad to chase crooks, that hooked him.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Unless you drive a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce, your new set of tires might look old to you now, in comparison to that Maserati.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs