Do not be seduced by those big-box come-ons, full of “complete sets” of extraneous cookware. A complete set is whatever you need, and maybe all you need is a wok and a hot place to grill your bacon. In a pinch, I can do it all with my good heavy nonstick frying pan. Besides the obvious braising, browning, and frying, I can make sauces and stir-fries in it, toast cheese sandwiches and slivered almonds, use the underside to pound cutlets, and in a pinch probably swing it to defend my honor. If I could find a man that versatile and dependable, I’d marry him.

Jennifer Crusie

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Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. "Did you drink my coffee?"

"Yes. I was feeling aggressive.

Jennifer Crusie

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You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together."

"I am," Jake said, turning back to the lake. "Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it."

"Is that why you gave them up?" Will asked, sympathetically. "Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?

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Jake ignored him and went on. “If I ever do hook up with anybody again - and I sincerely doubt that I will, so wipe that hopeful look off your face - it will be with someone who thinks that being with somebody who mows lawns is her idea of heaven on earth and who will do exactly what I tell her to do and love it."

"I think Donna Reed is dead," Will said.

Jennifer Crusie

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Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.

Jennifer Crusie

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At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice.

"You know, you used to be peaceful," he grumbled.

"I can't believe you were ever married." Kate said, as she cracked the can open. "What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?

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[…] I have a date this afternoon."

"Oh, Lord." Jake closed his eyes. "Who are you going to destroy now?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"The hotel would appreciate it if you'd just throw back the men you don't like without maiming them."

"I haven't maimed anyone."

"You almost drowned Lance, you scared Peter into heart palpitations, you stabbed Donald with a fork, and you hit Brad over the head with a bottle." Jake shook his head. "And they still ask you out.

Jennifer Crusie

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That woman needs protecting like Rambo needs a bodyguard.

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Who was the moron on the phone?"

"Carl Avery," Kate said. "A long-standing client and potential felon.

Jennifer Crusie

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I'm fine," Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better."

"Bad deduction," Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.

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