Quotes from J.D. Robb

Parents always feel the pride, and the responsibility.

is high praise.

Some people just like to kill. Sometimes it's not any more complicated than that." "It should be," Peabody replied

A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.

Stuff it, Jerry. This isn't just police business. It's humanity's business. Humanity, Jerry!

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

Monsters never die.

And what this small and, yes, treacherous, percentage of all the good men and women who work and risk and fight every single day has done to diminish that work, that risk, that fight, it weighs heavily.

was, Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People. And it's true enough. But a gun gives them a hell of a lot of help.

Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

confrontation while lounging in bed.

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

A dog who'd been kicked often enough knew to stay down.

Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.

There was the betting pool with life insurance. I bet so much a month that I'll live till I die

You get through a crisis by doing what needs to be done next.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

If God actually took the time to go around smiting anyone, she'd like to see him start with the self-righteous pricks who inflated their own egos in his name.

And personally, I don't get murder. Why kill people when you can just ignore them?

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.   —William Shakespeare

The world can be so dark. It's foolish to deny it, and the Irish know the dark better than some in any case. It reminds us to hold on to the light, every minute we can, and to prize it.

I love Feeney." Peabody blinked damp eyes. "I totally do.

Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. —Blaise Pascal