Tiffany

“Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise."

And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater.

Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?"

Selective deafness"

Teach me,master.”
― J.R. Ward, Covet

“Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment.

"Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?"

Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty.

Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head.

"Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy?

On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!”
― J.R. Ward, Covet

“I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.”
― Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time