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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
mariez:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 22, 2007, 09:05:11 am ---Hey Marie, thanks for helping out with the quotes!
Here's another line I always loved, from chapter 54:
Junior wiped her mouth delicately with a bright paper napkin. “That was delicious Daddy, thank you,” she said.
“Got any more a them?” Ellery said, rising and peering over at the stove.
“You just set. I swear you got a hollow leg,” Ennis grumbled, and picked up Ellery’s plate, bringing two more tacos over to him. “That’s all she wrote. But you won’t have no room for brownies.”
“Oh I got room no fear,” Ellery smiled. “Homemade baked goods just slide down my throat.”
LOL!
L
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Oh My God - I just spit coffee all over my screen!
(And you're more than welcome - this is a lot of fun!) :)
Marie
belbbmfan:
Thanks for all the great quotes. I was going to quote Wayne's visit from chapter 54 but you girls beat me too it ;D
“Wayne, “ Ellery sighed… “This is Ennis’s daughter, Alma.”
Junior smiled uncertaintly at the stranger in his tight red tank top and snug short-shorts, showing a considerable length of slender leg in the seated position.
“Daughter? Holy shit Ennis, you got married an had kids? You married a woman?”
“No I picked one out of a cabbage patch, Wayne,” Ennis hissed.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Funny Ennis! Love that!
louisev:
I came home from a meeting in Heidelberg and sat here and read back through all the quotes instead of cranking out a new chapter, and I got such a kick out of the Junior/Ellery dynamic and also the foreshadowings of Dupree's eventual self-discovery.
No wonder things didn't work out with Janice or Tatiana!
MaineWriter:
We are at 600 pages on this thread! Woo-wee!
Okay re-readers, today we have chapters 56-60 on tap.
http://louisev.livejournal.com/65216.html
From chapter 56:
The phone over the bar rang, and Rudy picked it up. “Red Stallion. Yeah hold on.” He held the phone out to Dupree. “It’s fer you, it’s the Sheriff’s department.”
“Dupree. Well who woulda figured, you gonna put a warrant out for em? Um let me see, driver was about oh thirty thirty five, light brown hair, short,, brown eyes, about six foot two thirty five ta two fifty pounds. Passenger was about six foot, dishwater blond, short hair, short beard an moustache, unkempt, medium build, both wearin jeans an jean jackets, no noticeable tattoos or scars.” He hung up once more and the phone rang immediately. He picked it up again.
Ennis was surprised, he had noticed very little of these details when he had gone out to the truck.. noticing more than anything Dupree’s attitude and the cut of his jeans over his muscled rear. I’d make a terrible policeman, he thought to himself, ignoring the implications of his looking at Dupree’s ass for the time being.
“Hey is there anybody here by the name a Freeze?” Dupree asked, looking around.
“Shut up Dupree,” Ennis growled, and snatched the phone out of his hand. “Hey Ellery.”
MaineWriter:
Something funny in chapter 57:
Junior nodded. Ellery got up to get her an ice water, cracking open a tray of ice from the freezer, noting that Ennis had defrosted and cleaned it. I got ta start payin attention ta that boy, he cleans way too much, he thought, as he plopped the cubes into a large glass and filled it, bringing it in for her, before picking up the phone once again.
and then,
“Yeah I don’t know if I can stay fer that... party...” she said doubtfully, sipping on the ice water. “Maybe if I get a good night’s sleep an all...”
“Well let’s get things set up for ya, okay? An don’t worry about yer Daddy. One a the advantages a livin with a member a the law enforcement community is I can have the Sheriff himself over here any time a the day or night if I really needed em, an I have only needed em over here once.” He did not tell her how recently that once was, however, and went to the bathroom closet to get the spare sheets, blanket and pillows, returning with an armload and setting them on the recliner before pulling out the coffee table.
“Can I help ya with that?” she asked, rising from the sofa as he moved toward it, and as Ellery looked up he found her staring at him. He glanced back down and stifled a grin. Not a shy girl, just acts like one, he thought.
“Nah, don’t take but a little tug right here,” he said, straightening up, feeling those luminous brown eyes on his body. An damn good thing Ennis ain’t here ta watch her watchin me too, he thought as he flipped out the convertible bed and locked it in the open position, then reached for the sheets and plopped them down. “Ya can help me with these maybe.”
“Sure enough,” she said, and he noticed she was blushing.
“Everythin okay?” he asked softly.
“Oh yeah, just a ... little tired is all,” she smiled weakly, as if knowing that he had noticed.
“Course. Comes on ya all of a sudden don’t it? Boy when my back gives out I have ta make a beeline to my bed an nothin’ll get me out of it, not even fresh biscuits. Okay, maybe fresh biscuits,” he joked.
“You an my daddy must eat a lot a biscuits if ya both love em that much. I should give ya the recipe ta make em fresh.”
“Hell no, we start mixin up dough in that kitchen Ennis’s’ll be bakin all day an cleanin all night, can’t have that.”
L
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