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I like what E. B. White said: 'A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

Criminal,' Cynthia called his inability to kick back and let circumstances take their course. In his book, circumstances without close supervision had a tendency to wind up in the ditch.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

Don't let the decor distract you," Gertie said. "I'd have to go blind for this not to distract me." "Got that right," Ida Belle grumbled. "Makes my butt itch, it's so loud." Gertie

Some say the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom," Gertie said. "I think the fear of women is the beginning of wisdom. At least for men.

Hey, Gertie, something strange happened last night." Gertie patted my leg. "I'm sure it seemed that way, but things in Sinful are never quite normal compared to other places.

The dead didn't show up to their own funerals and call people assholes.

heard Ritchie yell and peered out to see

was right. She sighed. It was beyond frustrating when things you didn't like were also your reality. "Where do you want the living room furniture?" one of the movers asked. She directed him inside

The idiot wrote that message on his utility bill.

Is there more meat?" I asked. Ida Belle nodded. "I'm pretty sure there's a black hole in the bottom of Gertie's trunk and meat is coming through it from another planet. We've hardly made a dent.

Good Lord, if you denied sinners a funeral service in the church, there wouldn't be any," I said.

photocopies of Raissa's

tapped his desk, staring at the monitor as if a

No, sir.' She withdrew her hand. 'Quoting Shakespeare will get you nowhere.

Her description of her method of work has been quoted over and over again by her critics, and I suppose it is no more ironic that this serious bit of self-depreciation should be taken au pied de la lettre than that her comic ones were.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Kath asleep (and snoring with her mouth open!) in the tack room.