Quotes from Maggie Shayne

<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

And in spite of herself, Maya sniffed the Christmassy scent of them, and felt her spirits rise. "Smells good, doesn't it?" Caleb asked. "Smells like a memory in the making

I took Amy's advice and resisted the urge to start snooping around in Nurse Boobsalot's life beyond my earlier cursory and unsuccessful internet search.

hand. "Care to explain

a typical male who would find a way to blame his lust on the object of it.

Cops coming and going, keyboards clicking, phones ringing. She looked haggard. Hard. She hadn't always, Vince figured. The worry lines bracketing her eyes, her mouth, the dry skin, the chapped lips, the sense that she really didn't give a damn what she looked like—those things had been strangers to her that first day. The day her kids hadn't come home from school. Now those lines, that hardness, had made themselves at home. It looked as if they planned to stay awhile. This shouldn't have

It was nine forty-five. I had Myrt's designer goggles dangling from one finger. Amy held out her hand. "I'll take vet duty if I can borrow the Subaru.

Turning, she unlocked the next door and went through it to the larger part of the

pajama bottoms

knowledge is power.

But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

It occurred to me that kids could easily take over the world. They could hack in and use our own technology against us. Or just decide to stop helping us figure it out to begin with. Either way, we adults would be relegated to a life of servitude and there would be weekly keggers in the White House rose garden. The only reason this hasn't already happened is that the kids haven't figured it out yet. When

Hee-hee-hee-who," she breathed, only she managed to do it to the tune of Beethoven's Fifth, and Caleb burst out laughing.

Maggie lives in a beautiful, century old, happily haunted farmhouse named "Serenity" in the wildest

long before your sister revives to come to your rescue. 'Tis almost too good. Not only do

she said very softly.

The frivolous can waste more by the teaspoon than the frugal can bring home by the wheelbarrow.

It occurred to me that kids could easily take over the world. They could hack in and use our own technology against us. Or just decide to stop helping us figure it out to begin with. Either way, we adults would be relegated to a life of servitude and there would be weekly keggers in the White House rose garden. The only reason this hasn't already happened is that the kids haven't figured it out yet. When they buy a clue, it's gonna suck to be a grown-up.

and spurs decorated the walls, along with a collection of hats and framed

when Orrin and Maria Brand had been killed in that car accident, leaving him as sole caretaker to his five younger siblings. And when

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.