“On the title page, the publisher placed his large seal depicting a jumping deer, representing his name.”
“My heart was jumping around like a school kid on the first day of summer.”
“Ladies, leave your man at home. The club is full of ballers and their pockets full grown. And all you fellas, leave your girl with her friends. 'Cause it's eleven thirty and the club is jumping, jumping.”
“I was given what was said to be a quiet horse, but was warned that it might try to jump anything jumpable.”
“But on perfect going, the imaginative course was perfectly jumpable and although only two of the 25 starters returned clear, five more made just a single error.”
“There are plenty of jumpable walls around the garden, after all.”
“The jumpiest times in the class were in 2002 and 2003, after the U. S. had invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq.”
“We spend the day together, and she is the jumpiest interviewee I've ever known, endlessly fretting about how this or that might come across in print.”
“Part of the fun of the novel is trying to determine exactly how awful Gert's childhood really was, since many of the jumpiest, jauntiest bits recall girlhood's standard humiliations.”