Quotes from Donna Andrews

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

Clowns, hoboes, gypsies, and furry animals of all kinds scattered madly and dived for cover. No doubt they thought I'd finally lost it and was planning to lob more grenades.

Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds.

But what about your own?" he asked. "Assuming, of course, you're interested in having one?" "I'm not. If I ever get married, I shall elope. That has now become my prime requirement in a husband. Willingness to elope.

When in doubt, ask a librarian.

If you're not entirely sure you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, it seems to me that the last thing you'd want to do is to set in motion a very lengthy, time-consuming, expensive, and highly public process designed to lead inexorably to just that.

For me, the start of a party only means a change from the tangible, boring, but satisfactory work of cooking, cleaning, and decorating to the unpredictable and far more difficult task of keeping several hundred neighbors and family members from injuring each other or driving me crazy before the end of the evening.

Creative interpretation of reality resulting from wishful thinking

anachronisms.

I don't see why we can't have more outdoor homicides," Dr. Smoot said.

on the bedside table in her room that

You're a natural at this kind of disorganized, illogical project.

And so here she was, working with a friend she could never see, trying to rescue someone she'd never met from an enemy that a few days ago she would not believed had existed.

What was it Sherlock Holmes said about theories?" "'It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,'" I rattled off. And as I continued, Dad chimed in so we were reciting in unison. "'Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.'" Sherlockian

Aren't there male protagonists who race into danger? And I bet you'd call them brave for doing exactly the same thing that a woman gets labeled 'Too Stupid To Live'.

A hunch is a deduction your subconscious has made from evidence you don't yet know you have.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,'" I quoted. "Which Holmes story is that from?" the chief asked. "I don't recognize the reference." "It's from Star Wars

The soup kettles included oyster stew, chili, matzoh ball soup, tomato soup, vegetable beef soup, hot and sour soup, and miso soup. The main dish table featured turkey, Virginia ham, prime rib, standing rib roast, pork roast, roast goose, Peking duck, lasagna, pizza, burritos, tamales, macaroni and cheese, and, in direct defiance of Grandfather's orders, grilled portobello mushrooms in red wine sauce.

That's what I like about you," Michael remarked. "Your finely honed sense of deviousness.

You don't suppose they're really expecting figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer," I muttered. "I thought your history professor friend said that historically accurate wassail would be mulled beer." "I'll put on the coffee," Michael said, heading downstairs. "I rather think that would be the suitable Southern Baptist equivalent.

His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.

I didn't think The Book of Occasional Services included anything like a Ceremony of Discreet Gloating

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

The very idea of purging source data appalls me. I suppose if I were human, I'd be a pack rat. I'd probably end up as a little old lady who gets crushed to death beneath the weight of her lifetime collection of National Geographics.