Janzen Quotes & Sayings

Kid Chaos : "Yes, ma'am". — Tara Janzen

Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood. — Tara Janzen

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us. — Doris Janzen Longacre

Granny panties. White as a flag, but with no surrender. — Rhoda Janzen

There was a lesson in here somewhere, he was sure. Or maybe he'd offended some ancient, pre-Columbian god while he'd been in South America -because this was a test. — Tara Janzen

You can't possibly be afraid of trees. — Tara Janzen

The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am. — Rhoda Janzen

That meant Ms. Starkova was his. He'd found her; he'd tailed her; and he'd saved her from Reinhard Klein. By jungle law, even the urban jungle, that made her his. — Tara Janzen

It was after Nick had left me that I learned the lesson: its when you don't love somebody that you do notice the little things. Then you mind them. You mind them terribly. — Rhoda Janzen

You stole my heart, Regan,"he told her. "And I don't particularly want it back. — Tara Janzen

He'd kissed her, and she'd been poleaxed, frozen in place, because his mouth had felt like coming home. The taste of him, the smell of him, the sound of his breath-the slow slide of his tongue over and around and down the lenght of hers, it had all said, Here's your place,girl,here with me. — Tara Janzen

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn't. — Tara Janzen

I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that's what we've got going here. I was willing to die for you. I'm sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to live with you. — Tara Janzen

Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math — Rhoda Janzen

She could not leave him hanging like this. "If you were hurt, I need to know." It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook. — Tara Janzen

No. Thank you she said in a voice that said he could go to hell and take his jacket with him. — Tara Janzen

You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore. — Tara Janzen

Do you still have Ms. Dekker?
Have her, had her, going to have her again-at least he'd planned on it until the troops had arrived. — Tara Janzen

He'd wanted to take her dirty and take her sweet, take her any way he could get her and every way he could dream up — Tara Janzen

We've got to stop meeting like this."
"No, we don't." He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it every day for the rest of his life. He just hadn't told her yet. — Tara Janzen

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. — Doris Janzen Longacre

Sometimes you can just feel a person's decency in the same way that
sometimes you can intuit a lack of it. Phil had the air of a man who is fully attentively engaged Josh Hannah's first fiance had the air of a man trying not to look at his watch. Phil consistently interested himself in the lives of others Josh talked about himself. Phil looked at my sister with tenderness and humor Josh looked at her
as if she were an especially persistent gnat. — Rhoda Janzen

But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car.
If this was fate, she was buying. — Tara Janzen

Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it! — Tara Janzen

All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.
Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life. — Tara Janzen

Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning. — Rhoda Janzen

Nikki : I think he makes women question their position in life through their association with the dichotomy of his physical power and his whole feminine mystique. That's the part of Travis I'm always trying to capture. The tension. You must have felt it in the studio.
She was serious. He could tell by the tone of her voice. And again, unbelievably, she was waiting for an answer.
Kid : Uh ... no.
Nikki : You didn't feel the tension ?
Kid : Yeah, there was tension. I just didn't realize it was the dichotomy of Travis' physical powers and his,uh,feminine mystique creating it. I thought it was the paint and the hellish death motif, not to mention the,uh,sheer demonic luridness of the eternity-sucking vortex. — Tara Janzen

It worried him. Like him, she had to be exhausted. She smelled like gasoline; her clothes were torn. She had a small white bandage on her forehead where the EMT had cleaned her cut. Dirt smudged her face, her arms, her legs. He knew she still didn't have any underwear, and for the first time, he felt bad about it. Real bad. He wanted to protect her, make her feel secure, keep her from harm - and all he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up. — Tara Janzen

Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't," he said, his own jaw a little tight. "So I stole his car. — Tara Janzen

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs. — Doris Janzen Longacre

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have? — Rhoda Janzen

About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends. — Doris Janzen Longacre

Hawkins's plan to be more careful was starting to include things like "carefully brushing her off," and "carefully take her home," where he could "carefully kiss her mouth" and "carefully take her clothes off. — Tara Janzen

He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot at again - and then throw himself at her feet. — Tara Janzen

Mission of mercy, he said, straightening up, his voice so cold, he could have owned the patent. — Tara Janzen

You're staring at my ass."
"Yes, I am." It's what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed. — Tara Janzen

I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl, I said. — Rhoda Janzen

How could she not know he was thinking about sex? he wondered. It was all he'd been thinking about for the last eighteen hours, give or take a few minutes spent thinking about keeping them both alive. Oh, yeah, and twice he'd thought about food, once about her mother, and once he'd checked to make sure he had an extra mag for his Glock. — Tara Janzen

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good? — John Janzen

Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last. — Doris Janzen Longacre

He looked around the room at all the stuff. But it wasn't just stuff and it wasn't just any girl grenade that had gone off in there. It was Nikki McKinney grenade. — Tara Janzen

Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely. — Doris Janzen Longacre

I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities. — Rhoda Janzen

If it hasn't already done so, the church ... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice. — Doris Janzen Longacre

- Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about?
- The one in Washington, D.C. — Tara Janzen

It was the most traditional wedding ring in the world. It reeked of stability and fiftieth wedding anniversaries. It proclaimed itself to the world as the rock upon which vows were never broken. It was a testament of his love. Proof of his commitment. — Tara Janzen

She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.
He really should marry her. — Tara Janzen

Renunciation of many good things is needed to break our bondage to the fragmenting forces of our society, which most of us have internalized, as if busyness on many fronts were a virtue instead of a vice. — David Janzen

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. — Doris Janzen Longacre

What I want to measure, what I can control, is my own response to life's challenges. — Rhoda Janzen

It was better to talk, which would be a helluva lot easier if he would just talk back a little. Damn it, it was like pulling a teeth to get him to say anything.
Like right now. He'd gone completely silent on her again, leaving the ball in her court, where the ball had been for the last half an hour. — Tara Janzen

He should probably make love to her. — Tara Janzen

He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat. — Tara Janzen

Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his "Avoid at All Costs" list right under untimely death and a desk job. — Tara Janzen

Don't you want to be neighbors?"
"No." he said. "I want to be lovers. Sleep-together lovers. Wake-up together lovers. One bed."
Oh, God, she was going to fall in love. She could feel it happening. — Tara Janzen

Fuck, Dylan said, then thought it, just for the hell of it. — Tara Janzen

When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community. — Rhoda Janzen

Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends flop like spaniel ears. I'm suspicious of unnaturally perky ribbon. — Rhoda Janzen

Good God. Johnny freakin' Ramos. Out in the hall. Of course, out in the hall. Hell, he'd spent half his life out in the hall,especially at Campbell Junior High,especially during seventh-grade social studies call. She'd gotten sent out in the hall with him once, her one and only time in the hall ever, the two of them put there to "work things out", and her poor little thirteen-year-old heart had barely survived the experience. — Tara Janzen

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.
Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans? — Tara Janzen

She was in love. In love with the same man she'd always been in love with-God save her. — Tara Janzen

Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving. — Doris Janzen Longacre

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living. — Doris Janzen Longacre

This isn't about you, Skeeter. It's about me, and I need you here. If we lose Crutchfield, we'll get him another day. If I lose you... — Tara Janzen

I've come to believe that virtue isn't a condition of character. It's an elected action. It's a choice we keep making, over and over, hoping that someday we'll create a habit so strong it will carry us through our bouts of pettiness and meanness. — Rhoda Janzen

She'd never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted. — Tara Janzen

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he'd spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart. — Tara Janzen