J.D. Robb

Quotes

• “You're aunt's just--what is it--down the hall. You know damn well this place isn't soundproofed.""You'll just have to be...”
• “Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like t...”
• “Brian's face broke out in a wide grin as he slapped Roarke on the back. "That's a woman, isn't it?""Delicate as a rose, ...”
• “Peabody, you never cease to amaze me.""One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't ab...”
• “Would you be shedding tears for McNab’s dead body if he’d been screwing around on you?”Peabody pursed her lips. “Well, s...”
• “Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?"She bit his good shoulder. "You...”
• “Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Chri...”
• “And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinac...”
• “You're almost as good as Peabody."He stopped at the door, grabbed her up in a steaming kiss. "You can't get that from Pe...”
• “Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing. ...”
• “Pull yourself together, Detective. You're embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you're embarrassing me.""They're goi...”
• “There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, w...”
• “Eve: "She completely eye-fucked you." Roarke: "I know. I feel so cheap and used." Eve: "Shit. You got off on it. Men alw...”
• “Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day."...”
• “Well...yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)Show what (Dallas)You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cock...”
• “The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before Igave him ID.”“It’s a sick world, Eve.” He r...”
• “I got you a present.""Did you?""It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed l...”
• “I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a...”
• “Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her st...”
• “She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the rest...”
• “Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?"Roarke: "Summerset has the night off."Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame...”
• “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, ...”
• “Peabody pursed her lips. "You're really mean today." "Yes. Yes, I am." Eve took a deep gulp of hideous air, and smiled. ...”
• “Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.""A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of...”
• “She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerv...”
• “What other thing, Eve?""I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. L...”
• “Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)”
• “And that, she thought as he left her, summed up the miracle of her life. She had a home with him, and he'd be there.”
• “An eye for an eye.”“That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.”“The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.”
• “If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.”
• “...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)”
• “The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.”
• “In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.”
• “I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.”
• “She doesn’t like you, McNab.“I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.”
• “That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.”
• “Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.”
• “She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.”
• “Eve: "Keep your mind off sex"Roake: "Why? It's so happy there.”
• “What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.”
• “Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.”
• “You have to trust or you're only living half a life.”
• “Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.”
• “I want to keep you, till the end of days.”
• “I hate patience. Slows everything down.”