Lorena McCourtney > Quotes

“God is in the forgiveness business. You don’t have to get your life all straightened up before you talk to him.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Dying to Read

“I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“Going to Sunday School and church isn’t going to get you into eternal life with the Lord. And not going won’t keep you out. An eternal life with the Lord isn’t something you can earn. It’s our acceptance of Jesus as Savior.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Go, Ivy, Go!

“Food court at the mall, 11:30 tomorrow. Order something expensive.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Dying to Read

“Me, I got patted down! I felt rather flattered that he thought I could have an AK-47 concealed in my pants leg or a bomb strapped to my Wal-Mart bra.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day,’ and this is one of the times I’m right.”
― Lorena McCourtney

“flowered”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“I knew they’d probably find my emergency stash of chocolate chips in my drawer of socks and panties. And maybe wonder why it was hidden there. None of your business, deputy, and never mind that chocolate chips probably aren’t an essential in a cache of survival food.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Charlie's Secrets: The Mac 'n' Ivy Mysteries

“These people may be old but they’re dangerous!” I decided to take that as a compliment.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“pickup? Or”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“over her pink flamingo yard ornament.” My private opinion was that a pink flamingo yard ornament deserved demolishing by any available means. A comment left unsaid, of course. Thea’s face”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“The about-to-set moon still made faint shadows that moved with us. Very pretty. Even a bit romantic. Unfortunately, all wasted ambiance when a man is holding a gun on you.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“dog knew what the words meant.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“There is something really undignified about being taken to your death site crammed in a car like circus clowns. Lord, we need some help here!”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“If we’re attacked by an army of tin cans, I can wipe ‘em out,” Mac declared. Good. Everyone needs to be prepared for a tin-can attack.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Something Buried, Something Blue

“It didn’t seem likely someone would arrive with snacks.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“About all I could give him credit for in those declarations was that he didn’t actually use that old cliché You’re beautiful when you’re angry.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“red tie flopped over a shoulder. He also had one of those little dabs of whiskers under his lower lip, the ones that look like the wearer should use a napkin to wipe away a hairy dribble.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Go, Ivy, Go!

“forthcoming.”
― Lorena McCourtney, In Plain Sight

“I finally spoke them out loud, and in the silence they came out like a bullhorn announcement. “I need to use a restroom.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“But maybe, if she’s really obnoxious, I could just, you know, accidentally stumble into her and knock her flat. We old people are so unsteady on our feet, you know.” Hmmm. A technique I might keep in mind. “You’re a bit devious yourself, Tasha.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Go, Ivy, Go!

“The sheriff’s office must be working overtime if they were out questioning a suspect on Sunday morning. Which probably meant they’d just uncovered the same information we had about Mike’s connection to Warren. I had no idea how they’d done it, but probably not by digging around in someone’s purse while listening to grunge music with a glittery-bottomed rump stuck up in the air.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“It was beginning to feel as if I knew more people residing in cemeteries than in houses these days, and I left feeling a little glum myself.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Invisible

“Hayden laughed. “Well, I haven’t shot anyone yet, so I really don’t know what kind of reaction I’ll have. But I’ve come to realize I’m just going to have to accept a little blood in these unpleasant situations in which I find myself.” A virtuous man making the best of a bad situation. Very admirable.”
― Lorena McCourtney, Desert Dead

“Both horse and rider seemed to glide along. I was impressed. I’d always bounced like a ping-pong ball at anything faster than a walk on the neighbor’s horse. Although”
― Lorena McCourtney, Go, Ivy, Go!

“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

“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

“be home for quite a while yet.”
― Lorena McCourtney, In Plain Sight

“created”
― Lorena McCourtney, Go, Ivy, Go!

“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