Top 450 Darynda Jones Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “My prodding me didn’t elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He’d seemed so sane huddled in Cookie’s trunk.”

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152. “Deaf people talk with their mouths full.”

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153. “My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.”

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154. “You have to understand, it goes against every fiber of my being. But I have to let you navigate the terrain on your own.”

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155. “I had a soft spot for crazy people.”

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156. “I don’t think I could ever complete anyone. But driving someone insane sounds doable. -Internet meme.”

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157. “He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through.”

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158. “I don’t understand your specific kind of crazy, but I do admire your commitment to it.”

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159. “Men were weird. Especially men made of tempered steel and fire and perpetual darkness. Or men with penises. Either way.”

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160. “It was ingrained in my DNA. I loved Reyes Farrow. I craved him, and there was nothing I could do about it.”

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161. “He’s an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire’s wedding cake.”

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162. “In Cookie’s defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.”

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163. “God I loved Sammy. I’d considered marrying him, but his wife got upset when I asked for his hand.”

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164. “A friend will help you if someone knocks you down. A best friend will pick up a bat and say, “Stay down. I got this.”

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165. “I’d never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.”

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166. “I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major who said I had attention issues. Or at least that’s what I think he said. I wasn’t really paying attention. Anyway, where was I?”

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167. “Few things in life are as surprising as having your husband, the man you gave your heart and soul to, throw you off a 350-foot building. I should know.”

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168. “Amber was busy flirting with a rookie named Dead Meat if he didn’t stop flirting back. She was eleven, for heaven’s sake! Of course, he may have just been humoring her. And it was a little cute. In a gross, Chester-the-molester kind of way.”

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169. “There is a fine line between freedom and slavery.”

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170. “Come here often?? I asked instead, humoring no one but myself. So it was totally worth it.”

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171. “He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.”

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172. “Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.”

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173. “Coffee: A warm, delicious alternative to hating everyone forever. – TRUE FACT.”

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174. “Damn it.” I wilted beside her, all my hopes and dreams of being a pimp dashed against the cruel rocks of reality. And an unwilling ho.”

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175. “Yeah, but what happens if life hands me pickles? – Bumper sticker.”

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176. “You know you have ADD when Look A chicken – T-shirt.”

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177. “I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you in my bed every night. I want you there when I wake up in the morning. I want your clothes strung across my apartment and your scent on my skin.”

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178. “I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, “This is Beam Me Up.” Then to my right. “And this is Scotty.” Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.”

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179. “I hardly loathe myself. Have you seen my ass?”

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180. “If I was going to go out tonight, I was going to go out fighting. Or screaming in agony. Either way.”

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181. “Lead me not into temptation. Follow me instead! I know a shortcut! – T-SHIRT.”

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182. “My life is just like a soap opera filmed in a psychiatric ward. – T-SHIRT.”

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183. “See this? This i-e? When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.”

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184. “It was the whole rote memory thing. I’d woken up in that alley knowing how to talk. How to walk. How to search the Internet. And I woke up in love. It was ingrained in my DNA. I loved Reyes Farrow. I craved him, and there was nothing I could do about it.”

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185. “I suck at all this supernatural stuff. But I fry a mean chicken. Oh, good. I hate it when the nice ones get fried.”

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186. “After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.”

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187. “I knew it!” she said, glaring at me. “You’re in league with the devil.” “Duh. I’m affianced to him. Or, well, his son. I guess that makes me ‘in league’ with him, but you can’t judge people by their in-laws. In-laws are all crazy. Everyone knows that.”

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188. “I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there alive. Though I did tend to exaggerate.”

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189. “Charley: If you‘re not going to tell me where you are, if you‘re not going to trust me to help you, then why are you here? Why bother? Reyes: Because you‘re the reason I breathe.”

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190. “You want cookies?” she asked, her Texas accent at odds with her Asian features.”

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191. “Reyes and I sat arm in arm in the back of the rented SUV. He seemed relieved. Happy.”

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192. “Winching was apparently a guy thing. As was wenching.”

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193. “Uncle Bob was about to kill the lot of us, screaming about how unfair it was to play poker with a bunch of mutants with supernatural gifts. I felt the name-calling was a not-so-silent cry for help, but he refused to agree to therapy. Donovan offered to roofie him, so that was nice. I shook my head, though. He’d totally arrest us all. Especially me.”

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194. “Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick...”

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195. “I told Bobert and Cookie about the hypothetical man and his hypothetical family. She didn’t fall for it. Damn her and her psychic abilities. I’d have to watch what I said around her. No! I’d have to watch what I thought around her. Crap, this was going to be hard.”

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196. “Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn’t.”

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197. “That big, beautiful ball of fire I’d so often complained about as a resident of New Mexico, where sunshine was damned near a daily occurrence.”

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198. “I lowered the gun but didn’t holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.”

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199. “You can’t make someone love you. You can only stalk them and hope for the best. – INTERNET MEME.”

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200. “Danger: Attitude subject to change without notice.”

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