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Hi Teen,

You are right, Ranger gets more mysterious and more inscrutable the more the series goes on and the more he becomes successful in his other business endeavors. I think though that he is laughing on the inside all the time over her problems. I think there is one, though I can't remember which book, think it is around ten or eleven or higher where he admits to her that he sets aside money to deal with her and puts that under entertainment expenses. Lol.



P.S. When I get the books on dvd from the library, they make me laugh out loud even more than the books do. The gal who does most of the books on dvd is hilarious. She was doing the British tapes for a time and Janet special requested her to do her US ones as well. I think her name is Loreli King and she does all the voices so well, that in itself is funny.

Kate

Just a few of my favorites:


Morelli:

The next time I saw him, I was three years older. I was on my way to the mall, driving my father's Buick when I spotted Morelli standing in front of Giovichinni's Meat Market. I gunned the big V-8 engine, jumped the curb, and clipped Morelli from behind, bouncing him off the front right fender. I stopped the car and got out to assess the damage. "Anything broken?"
He was sprawled on the pavement, looking up my skirt. "My leg."
"Good," I said. Then I turned on my heel, got into the Buick, and drove to the mall.

"I don't need an escort. I'll be fine."

He had his hand at my elbow, steering me forward. "Don't flatter yourself. I'm not nearly so concerned about your welfare as I am about getting you the hell out of my life. I want to make sure you leave. I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset."

Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere along Route 1, along with my muffler.



Contemplating working for Vinnie:

Wonderful. The perfect position for someone already in the depths of despair. Rotten boss, rotten job, rotten pay. The possibilities for feeling sorry for myself were endless.

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"You'd blackmail me, your own cousin?"

"These are desperate times."



Asking Ranger for training:

Manoso grinned. "This is gonna be fun. This here's gonna be like Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle Does Trenton."

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I'd called Ranger and asked for help, since I was too chicken to do breaking and entering on my own. When I pulled into the lot, Ranger was waiting. He was all in black. Sleeveless black T-shirt and black fatigue-type pants. He was leaning against a gleaming black Mercedes that had enough antenna on it to get to Mars. I parked several spaces away so my exhaust wouldn't tarnish his finish.


Self-reflecting

I'd never thought of myself as small until I stood alongside Ramirez. I'm 5' 7" and rawboned from the Mazur's good Hungarian peasant stock. Perfectly constructed for laboring in the paprika fields, pulling plows, and dropping babies out like bird's eggs.


Stealing Morelli's car:

I did some slow breathing so I wouldn't crash my first stolen car.

Morelli discovering she stole her car:

I left-turned up Clinton, and the phone chirped.

It was Morelli, and he didn't sound happy. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" he yelled.

"I'm taking Mr. Sampson to the police station. You're more than welcome to follow us. It would make everything much easier for me."

A pretty ballsy reply, considering I was having a panic attack.

"THAT'S MY CAR YOU'RE DRIVING."

"Mmmmmm. Well I've commandeered it."

"You've WHAT?"

I flipped the switch to shut the phone off before the conversation deteriorated into death threats.


Evaluating Sampson:

Not what you'd call a type A personality. I didn't think Sampson would ever have to worry about a stress-related heart attack. Sampson would most likely die of inertia.





I have a few others to add and will try to do that Monday night.

Kate

Hi Teen,

I've started on Two!

I agree with you on Morelli. He so deserved it. And he wrote all about it on walls! God, what a jerk.

There are a couple other quotes I wanted to add. Sorry been dealing with life. One is of Morelli telling her she hasn't "known" the beast lately.

I wanted to say how much I loved the introductions in One of Connie and Lula. They are so great, and so much encapsulate those two women's characters.

Kate