Top 100 J.D. Robb Quotes
#1. Eve-"In the name of all that is holy ... It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?"
Roarke-"Amen
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#2. An eye for an eye."
"That's a revenge thing, right? From some play."
"The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
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#4. A hundred-eighty pounds of dead weight - all muscle - to
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#5. She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
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#7. You need more sleep."
"Skillet, pan."
"What?"
"You know, the skillet says the pan's the same deal."
He thought a moment. "I believe that's the pot calling the kettle black."
"Whatever, kitchen stuff can't talk anyway.
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#8. Because dead people don't get angry. They're dead.
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#9. You think they've killed before?"
"I'd bet your ass on it"
"Why my ass?" Eyes slitted, Peabody jabbed a finger in the air. "Because it's bigger? Because it has more padding? That's hitting below the belt."
"Your ass is below your belt. I'd bet mine, too, if it makes you feel better.
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#10. I don't get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They've got fists. It's embarrassing to our entire gender.
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#12. It's a damn small world when it sucks.
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#13. Ours is a spiritual bond I treasure, something deep and strong, and older than time. We are, in essence, the same person, two sides to one coin. Death unites us.
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#14. Guilt's oozing out of the son - name's Jimbo, and I'm sorry about that. And Bubba's getting sweaty.
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#15. I'm late," she snapped before Summerset could speak. "But here's the thing, I'm not always late, but you're always ugly. Who's got the real problem?
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#16. over the face in the picture. "Except for one thing." "Let me
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#17. The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More
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#18. You have power over a powerful man. His love for you gives you the power, though I suspect there are times the two of you fight like cats.
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#19. Simple doesn't mean unfulfilled.
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#20. Summerset-I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.
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#21. There are no dead ends, just detours.
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#22. And you were going to do that anyway." "I was, yes." He smiled at
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#23. 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're about to find out."
She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. "Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.
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#24. The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were - sex, race, tax bracket - death leveled it all out.
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#25. You just pounded yourself into me with all the finesse of a sweaty celibate breaking fast with a rented sex droid.
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#26. The security officer smiled and said, 'Good afternoon, ma'am,' to me before I
gave him ID."
"It's a sick world, Eve." He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. "A sick,
sad world.
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#27. Fuck him."
Feeney made a sound like a man who'd been pinched. "Christ Jesus, Dallas, you're in St. Pat's."
"If God's going to make little weasels like him, she's going to have to listen to complaints.
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#28. traffic was as mean as a constipated lion
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#29. Vicious women are so attractive. Did you say you had a couple of hours?
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#30. U.N.? As in United Nations?" "No, U.N. as in Unidentified Numbskulls.
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#31. Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right?
Roarke: I look better in black.
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#32. Eve, did you marry me for my money?"
"You bet your ass. And you'd better hold on to it, or I'm history"
"It's very sweet of you to say so.
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#33. A cop? You married a bloody cop?"
"I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that.
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#34. Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles."
"Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.
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#35. Marriage is a series of promises.
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#36. If you knew her, you'd understand Eve is no one's mark. Regardless, I wouldn't betray her for anything. Or anyone.
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#37. I don't remember, and I don't want to remember. I've been a victim, and once you have, you need to do whatever it takes not to be one again
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#38. you know, I'm only marrying you for sex and food.
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#39. Don't make threats unless you intend to follow through.
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#40. Fate rules, Eve. You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughting and makes fools of us
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#41. The statute of limitations . . . She's put it behind her. Or I hope she has. She'd have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat.
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#42. She doesn't like you, McNab.
I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.
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#43. Shut up. If you don't shut up, if you don't cease resisting immediately, I will pull your tongue out of your mouth, drag it around your neck, and strangle you with it.
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#44. When it's my turn, don't do this. Recycle the parts, burn the rest.
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#45. If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.
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#46. Some people relax better without the confines of clothes," Peabody said, then flushed when Eve cast a considering glance over her shoulder. "I've heard.
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#47. Violence is as American as cherry pie. - RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN
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#48. 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.
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#49. It was hardly a wonder that it had been her, essentially from the first minute he'd seen her. That it would be her until his last breath. And very likely well beyond that.
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#50. Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?"
"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.
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#51. You
Roarke." Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. "Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke?"
"That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.
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#52. Or the ploy Dahmer used - that classic had proven to do the job in all the decades following. Lone woman struggling to lift something heavy into the back of a vehicle. Can
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#53. It's so difficult for two shy people to manage.
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#54. She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn't just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn't only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.
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#55. Is there any exceptionally beautiful woman you haven't slept with?"
"I'll make you a list. So, you knocked her down.
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#56. The waiter arrived and took their orders. When he was gone, Macy added, Besides, my life coach says it's inefficient to spend time with people you're hoping will change, that it's a surefire way to derail your future.
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#57. Bright blessings on both of you, and safe travels wherever the path takes you.
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#58. Well ... yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)
Show what (Dallas)
You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead. (Peabody)
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#59. She wondered why two people who loved each other to the point of stupid managed to aggravate each other as often as they seemed to.
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#60. Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day."
"I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.
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#61. What the hell does it matter who I am or who I'm with?
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#62. Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.
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#63. Peabody: "When a guy's in the hospital, he wants toys."
Eve: "When a guy gets a splinter in his toe, he wants toys.
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#64. Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee.
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#65. How can I love you and not be afraid? You're my life, Eve, my heart. You're asking, you're wondering if I ever worry, if I ever fear, that one day Peabody or Feeney, your commander - a cop who's become a friend - will knock on my door? Of course I do.
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#66. As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel. The sheer beauty of it, framed by all that rich black hair, was forever a surprise to her.
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#67. I shopped,"she said
"Dear God! Are you all right? Should I call for the MTs?"
"Smartass.
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#68. After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.
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#69. Dirge swelled, then without warning, he turned his head,
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#70. I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you.
It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.
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#71. Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.
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#72. When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.
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#74. sure bet, the crowd hadn't packed the
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#75. Please, Eve, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation."
"Keep it up, ace, and I'll give you a public display of affection that'll have you limping for a week."
"Now I'm excited.
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#76. But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional seminar to educate and inform.
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#77. He did something he rarely did. He touched her. Just a pat of his hand over the back of hers. But it was, Eve realized, a kind of intimacy. An affectionate contact between comrades, and more personal than any act the victim had ever exchanged with a client.
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#78. There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.
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#79. There. Politics is a bartering game.
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#80. You're earlier than expected, and appear to have gotten through the day without destroying any article of clothing. I must note this event down on my calendar."
"Bitch when I'm late, bitch when I'm early. You could go pro on the bitching circuit.
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#81. I'm not afraid of you, Roarke."
"Aren't you?" He moved closer, curling his hands on the lapels of her shirt. "What do you think will happen if you step over the line?"
"Too much," she murmured.
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#82. She'd know. Ain't nobody more psychic than a wife.
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#83. 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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#84. You're not perfect, and that makes you just exactly right.
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#85. Cakes of rice are not a snack. I suspect them of evil deeds for this alone.
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#86. Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him." "Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick." She
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#87. It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof
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#88. Roarke made some notations on the fax - a
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#89. What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.
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#90. Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.
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#91. For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and for her, she realized. He could open little pockets of peace.
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#92. Can't change what was," she said with a shrug. "So you deal with what is
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#93. Love meant different things to different people.
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#94. I want to keep you, till the end of days.
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#95. A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.
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#96. The female suspect, you said someone she'd counseled. You have her records?
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#97. I had that hole in me. that empty space ... she put it in me, you filled it ... she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke
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#98. Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)
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#99. Maybe a little break," she muttered. "Just maybe." She'd lucked out with Mason Tobias. He might've been a little dingy,
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#100. She rose. "I'll just go get the wine."
"I'm not interested in wine."
She walked away, tossed a glance over her shoulder. "You will be. When I start licking it off you.
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