J.D. Robb Quotes

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant
mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion ...

Being alone. He wanted a woman

Sometimes a well-placed lie saved friendships, and sanity.

As man-candy went, he was a caloric binge. Eve thought it was easy to see why he had so many clients paying for a nibble.

You know, Roarke, you're kind of cute." Eve Dallas

mood out of her. He slipped

I shopped,"she said
"Dear God! Are you all right? Should I call for the MTs?"
"Smartass.

Summerset-I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

victims' diaries again, cross

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Feeney in Naked in Death

over, shoes just - Hey!" She marched over, picked

Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals.

She had to hoof it two

He watched, somewhat fascinated as she swished a slice of bacon through the pool of syrup. His steely-minded cop had the appetite of a five-year-old.

Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.

Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.

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The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.

An eye for an eye."
"That's a revenge thing, right? From some play."
"The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

People, she thought, could be unbelievably stupid.

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

You have to be naked with somebody for more than two hours for them to qualify as an ex. It's a law.

Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.

Why do they stare? They're always staring. Like dolls," she said as they walked into the building. "Or sharks." "I

Can you work in a stop by the Miras' sometime today?

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were - sex, race, tax bracket - death leveled it all out.

Wow, colorful. I think the kid's head plowed into me. He came at me like a mortar. Pow! Skull meets tits. Tits lose.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.

She doesn't like you, McNab.
I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.

Pop quizzes were killers. Like ambushing assassins they elicited fear and loathing in the prey, and a certain heady power in the hunter.

McNab pranced in on plaid airboots,

If children don't push the edges now and again, what's the point of being a child?

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

The whole point of love is that it has no reason. It just is.

You're thinking I'm not aware of the worst that could happen. I am, but I just don't believe the worst is going to happen.

If somebody doesn't call me a bitch once a day, I figure I'm not doing my job.

Violence is as American as cherry pie. - RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

Sit up, and no whining."
"I don't whine."
"Rarely," he agreed. But when you do, you make up for the lack of quantity with quality.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashion accessory.

He wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books."
~Eternity in Death

She woke to the scent of coffee, and wondered if that was how mornings in heaven smelled.

People always think it can't happen to them, instead of thinking it's going to happen to somebody, why not me." She

A man can be pulled in by beauty and not see beneath it.

People who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun - and sweetness.

I'm still picking pockets
I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.

Gwen almost as long as I can remember. When I got

I want to keep you, till the end of days.

He loved her, wanted her, needed her, just as impossibly as she loved, wanted, needed him. Miraculos.

You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.

Maybe a little break," she muttered. "Just maybe." She'd lucked out with Mason Tobias. He might've been a little dingy,

Don't make threats unless you intend to follow through.

It's so difficult for two shy people to manage.

But where do you go to get away from what's always there?

On the site you plan to hit, it's going to beef up security." "But we'd be looking for a killer. Not a thief.

Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.

Eve: "You already own half the universe"
Roarke: "Why settle for half when you can have all?

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What

God is dead and I am his replacement.

You're arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law."
He lifted one amused brow. "And your point would be?

Winning can be addictive

Why do sheep need a station? Are they catching trains? Where are they going? Why do they have to go there?

Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don't you're buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary."
"A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

then simply held it while shame washed

If men had to wear heels, they'd be outlawed across the land.

When I ducked out, she was talking to Ana Whitney and some Roarke exec about knitting. The three of them were into it like it was their religion.

Girls chattering is like birds." He fluttered his fingers at his ears. "You hear only the notes.

No one, she tought as the breath trembled through her lips, no one had ever looked at her as he did. In a way that told her she was the center

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More

I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right?
Roarke: I look better in black.

She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that's exactly what she got.

Side, party got out of hand. Guy shot five people with a

What do you mean SOS?"
"Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you.

Roarke leaned over,

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

Life is full of circles

Because dead people don't get angry. They're dead.

Grandeur. chapter seventeen Harrison Tibble was a thirty-five-year vet on the police force.

Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles."
"Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

I'm going to see if Morris has a spare spine lying around you can borrow if you're scared to speak to that high-heeled, smug-ass bitch, Peabody.

Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more than you did before.

Edward, they might know me. Some people

Dammit All To Hell and Back Again!

turbulent eyes. "I didn't realize.

A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore.

Love turned everybody's brain sideways, just like a stunner.

You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

Roarke made some notations on the fax - a

It's rare in war for either side to consider the innocent." Why

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

And there was nothing in his life he could remember fearing as much as he feared knocking on the bright blue door of that old stone house.

Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time." "That's because people, by and large, are whacked.