Quotes from J.D. Robb

Just Roarke, as far as I know. Big money there. Kind of guy that touches shit and turns it into gold bricks. You've got to start reading more than the sports page, Dallas.

Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

With Code Five, I'll have to do the door-to-door myself. Not a simple sex crime," she said with a sigh. "Whoever did it set it up. The antique weapon, the wounds themselves, almost ruler straight down the body, the lights, the pose. Who called it in, Feeney?

And we don't hit people when they say stupid things. Because they're allowed to, it's not against the law. People can be as stupid as they want, and we just ignore them. We can say, 'You're wrong,' or maybe, 'You're an idiot,' but that's it. We don't hit 'em, we just ignore 'em. Right?

A cop did better cynical and suspicious.

The dead aren't the only victims.

A good cop, a smart cop, closes cases and locks up the bad guys.

Parents are weird and dangerous creatures.

Two years married, she thought, and he could still make her heart hum.

The surface can hide a great deal of turmoil.

I married a bright, beaming ray of sunshine. And one who's often armed.

It matters, Eve, that you came from monsters. Matters, he continued, gripping her chin in his hand, because, coming from them, you chose to make yourself into a woman who hunts the monsters. Not for vengeance, as would surely have been my choice, but for justice. I built a house. You built a hero.

For some a gift is only a symbol of their own superior position, which makes it not a gift at all.

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

Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.

Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.

You bought something. You shopped!" "I didn't shop. I purchased what is likely stolen merchandise, or gray-market goods. It's potential evidence.

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

Your heart runs deep. It is…choosy. It is careful, but when it's given, it's complete.

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

You're not just the center of my world, Eve. He kissed her brow, her temples, her lips. You're the whole of it.

Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it.

He coordinated his socks and underwear, she commented when Peabody came back in. Colors and patterns. Who does that, and why? I read this article about how what you wear under your clothes is all about what makes you feel empowered and in control. It's the Under You. If wearing matching boxers and socks make you feel empowered, you're a weenie.

Thoughts, Lieutenant?" Summerset asked as she started up the stairs. "What? On the house? It's better without the scary wallpaper and nightmare kitchen." "A point of agreement. I'll mark the calendar." He sort of got her that time, Eve thought as she continued up. But she'd been thinking of home and work and not of giving him a nice little jab.