Quotes from J.D. Robb

building again," Eve continued. "Knows how to angle herself to keep her face off camera. We're going to find somebody who saw

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And you were going to do that anyway." "I was, yes." He smiled at

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and haven't killed any of them?

Yeah, but if you're not excited about your work, life's crap.

The place smelled like an incense farm married to a flower shop.

Never in my life have I known anyone who has such a basic dislike of people, yet has such unstinting and bottomless compassion for them.

The least I can do after standing you up tonight is make you feel manly.

Who'd want to cyanide Brant Fitzhugh?" "You know, I was just wondering the same thing. Strangely, it's our job to figure that out.

Lots of medical, scientific, technological advances come through little bits of craziness, a lot of ego." "Or

People were a hazard to the damn human race.

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

Running a bit behind today," he told them. "Sent off for tox as you'd flagged that. Shouldn't take long." She glanced down at the body. Morris hadn't yet made his Y cut. "What can you tell me just from the visual?" "Lieutenant, this woman is dead." "Peabody, note that down. We've got a dead woman.

Eve felt the shuttle dive, simply closed her eyes. Nothing made sense about being thousands of feet over an ocean. It was insanity. The human race was just bat-shit crazy.

Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow." "I'm thinking a T-shirt.

She used her master to gain access to the dumpy three-story walk-up, ignored the rickety elevator, and took the stairs to the top floor.

There's no cop in my division I wouldn't recommend. Every one of them would pursue this investigation thoroughly, diligently, and work until they'd closed the case.

forgotten, in a hormonal haze, she held. "I could use some of that coffee.

the ground—she was a little thing, barely a hundred pounds—until the lack of oxygen had her going limp.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. —Benjamin Franklin

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. —TACITUS

it made her look younger, more fit. It increased her energy and her sexual drive.

Just one of the people who walk past a corner of your life.

Perhaps I could-- She snarled at him, hunched protectively over her unit. You just want to show off. Would I be that small? To cut me down on this, you'd shrink to microscopic.