Favorite Lines #OpenBook Blog Hop

December 10, 2018

We are writers. This is our time to shine. What are some of your favorite lines from your books?

This week is the dictionary definition of #humblebrag. Every now and then, I look at the line I just wrote and think "Wow, that's a good one!" So here are a few of my favorites.

I think this series of lines is when I first fell in love with Harmony Duprie, the main character of the Oak Grove Mysteries. The concept of this level-headed, intelligent woman having such a illogical reaction to an everyday event really helped me form her character.

 The bus ride home seemed longer than the morning’s trip as I studied each person getting on for a potential threat. Was the little gray-haired lady with the oversize purse and shopping bag packing a handgun? Did the teenage boy wearing a long black coat keep ninja stars in his pockets? And the woman in her mid-twenties holding a little girl’s hand? Was the child was just a prop, borrowed for the afternoon, solely to throw off suspicion? In reality, was the woman a super spy waiting for a chance to drug me and cart me off to her remote hideaway?

That's from The Marquesa's Necklace, if you haven't read it. 

And here's a selection from Her Ladyship's Ring, the second book in the series.It's a conversation between Detective Thomason, Harmony, and her landlords. 

“Did you hear the shot? Was there more than one?”

What the hell? “No, I didn’t, I was singing.”

“Badly,” muttered Luke.

“Off-key,” added Joe.

I never claimed to be good.

Of course, I can't forget the Free Wolves series. Here's a quote from Wolves' Pawn.

Dot was out of throwing knives, but she still had the wickedly sharp night stalker bowie knife Gavin had loaned her. The rival wolves quickly learned to avoid her, and when one shifted back to man form, she laughed and pointed the knife at his exposed genitals. He returned to wolf form, and paced around her, searching for another avenue of attack. A swift feint resulted in a nasty slice on his front leg, and a second saw a cut along his ribs. He wasn’t about to give up, and as he bunched his muscles for a third attempt, one of Dot’s companions rushed him from the side, knocking him over. While he was stunned, Dot wrapped a plastic zip tie around his muzzle, leaving enough of an opening that he could still pant, and two more ties went around his legs. “I should take lessons in calf roping,” she joked.

And another one from the same book.

She knew this was a bad idea. Even as Dot mounted her motorcycle to start the convoy, the human portion of her instinct screamed at her to stop. But the feral grin on her face was that of the wolf, and the wolf was in charge.

One more. This is from Wolves' Gambit, the third book in the Free Wolves series.

 But the years of fighting and fleeing had scarred her, and hope didn't belong in her vocabulary. Only plans and action.

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And I lied. Here's another short one from Wolves' Gambit

You're not as innocent as you appear, Miss Grenville. Although if anyone else showed up in my bed in that outfit this late at night, I'd think they were trying to seduce me.

Now I'm done, and off to find out everyone else's favorite lines

December 10, 2018

We are writers. This is our time to shine. What are some of your favorite lines from your books?


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