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“I'm thinking there isn't much normally in your normally.”
― Elise Sax

“Don’t you dare break,” I told the air conditioning. “I can deal with murderers and exploding toilets, but I need cold air.”
― Elise Sax, Die Noon

“You were in a libido freeze for some reason. You didn’t care about men, good-looking or not. Usually a libido freeze is caused by divorce or death.” “Or commitment issues,”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“I thought he was living a secret life, but maybe he was just in a quiet corner somewhere, reading.”
― Elise Sax, Matchpoint

“who doesn’t mind if she’s a few pounds overweight. Every man wants a floozy he can take home to Mom. See? Asking their opinion only leads to headaches you could die from. Take it from me, I’ve been doing this a lot of years. Nobody knows what they want. You have to size a person up and tell them what they want. It might take convincing, but you’ll widen their horizons, and they’ll thank you for it. Eventually. Remember, love can come from anywhere, usually where you least expect it. Tell them not to be afraid, even if it hits them on the head and hurts a lot at first. With enough time, any schlimazel can turn into a Cary Grant or a presentable floozy. Lesson 22, Matchmaking”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“So, my words of wisdom to women are, fall in love with a man who has a little boring and a little interesting in him.”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“Accept who you are, girl,” she said. “It don’t matter if you’re not what you want to be. Nobody is.”
― Elise Sax, Citizen Pain

“Spencer locked eyes with me and arched an eyebrow. He wasn’t going to move. He wasn’t going to check Larry’s wee wee. We were deadlocked. “You’re going to let your girlfriend see another man’s wee wee?” I asked him. “Normally, I would be upset about that, but in this case, I’m thinking I don’t have to worry. Let me know if we have to call the paramedics.”
― Elise Sax, Matchmaker Mysteries 5-7: From Fear to Eternity / West Side Gory / Scareplane

“We think of life as a series of milestones, of happy events and tragic ones. But it’s the spaces in the middle that make up the living parts of life. A dinner here. A sunset there. These are the building blocks. If you focus on only the big and the bigger, you’ll miss what’s in front of you. Focus on the mundane and the everyday to create a life of love. Love is never more than a step away.”
― Elise Sax, It's A Wonderful Knife

“in”
― Elise Sax, How to Marry a Billionaire

“You can’t know until you follow the road until the end. If you’re lucky, there isn’t an end. The road just keeps going. Lesson”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“The coffin had lurched forward during the crash and decapitated her. “Holy crap,” I said. “Randy got her.”
― Elise Sax, Matchmaker Mysteries Books 1-3

“when you are a prosperous man, you do nothing to jeopardize that prosperity. So, I did not go against the many. I was a coward, Agatha. A miserable coward with five servants and a fine house. I wanted for nothing, and I feared wanting.”
― Elise Sax, The Fear Hunter

“I flicked my soft hair back. It swished against my shoulder, falling in a cascade before returning elegantly to its original position. Oh, nice.”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“Rocks”
― Elise Sax, How to Marry a Billionaire

“You’re telling me. The entire town wants to know if you killed Jimmy Sanchez with your vagina.”
― Elise Sax, Die Noon

“other”
― Elise Sax, How to Marry a Billionaire

“one, and there was nothing to see except for our old, beloved home. “What’s going on? Awfully quiet around here,” Auntie Tilly said, looking straight at me. “It’s been quiet for nearly a year,” Auntie Ida answered for me, as she flipped a pancake on the stove. “Why? What happened?” Auntie Tilly asked, looking at me, again. “I’m being saved from heartache,”
― Elise Sax, The Fear Hunter

“My insides melted, and if I wasn't mistaken, the throbbing in my tooth moved down lower. Much lower.”
― Elise Sax, Matchpoint

“You know what?” I said. “I want a hamburger.” “Really?” “Let’s not analyze it. That’s what I want, and I want tequila shots to wash it down.”
― Elise Sax, Citizen Pain

“I’m not Midas, Matilda,” she said. “You know how many butts need wiping in my family?”
― Elise Sax, A Doom with a View

“Pinkie,” he said, “make no mistake. I don’t wax, prune, or buff. I’m more the come-as-I-am kind of man. I come natural.” A tiny droplet of spittle dripped from my mouth.”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“Would I prefer to die in a car crash or touch a snake? I now knew the answer.”
― Elise Sax, Die Noon

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“There’s no shortage of horny men in this world,”
― Elise Sax, Matchmaker Mysteries Books 1-3

“I didn’t know any of that when I started my new life in Goodnight, New Mexico. I had only had one up close and personal killer up until that point, and I may or may not have brought a dead woman back to life. But boy, was that about to change.”
― Elise Sax, Die Noon

“schlimazel”
― Elise Sax, An Affair to Dismember

“Coffee emergency!” I shouted, pulling out the big guns. “And I smoked a cigarette, too! You know what that means!”
― Elise Sax, Matchmaker Mysteries 8-10

“She said I look nice.” “Then, she was wrong. Nice doesn’t cut it. You look smokin’ hot. Tell me you’re not wearing panties.” “I’m wearing the big kind of underpants that come three to a pack and suck my fat into my pancreas.” “Nobody talks dirty like you, Pinky. Nobody.”
― Elise Sax, Matchmaker Mysteries 8-10

“to go to back to”
― Elise Sax, How to Marry a Billionaire