Quotes from J.D. Robb

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

Well, if you're going to let some geek beat your ass, I guess I need another partner. He sat back, eyes narrowed, and looked, she thought, amazingly sexy sitting bare-chested at the controls with a scowl on his magnificent face. What is that expression you're so fond of? Ah yes, bite me .

Can you work in a stop by the Miras' sometime today?

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

then simply held it while shame washed

Simmering estrogen." Roarke sipped his wine. "Sounds bloody dangerous

His curses delivered in a low, vicious voice, became steadily more inventive. And, she observed with some fascination, more Irish.

I want you inside me." "You only want one aspect inside you," he murmured.

She shrugged. "I could write a book of sayings that should actually be sayings if people didn't keep killing each other.

How do you know that? You couldn't have finished the book." "I skipped to the end." "You…" He closed his eyes as he drank more wine. "Some things are unforgivable

But it was too late as Eve had an armful of chubby baby in foaming, lacy pink. Blonde curls in pink ribbons danced as Bella bounced. She said, "Gah," and grinned. "Okay. God. Okay. Why are you always smiling?" Eve demanded. "What do you know?

You want the kick without the intimacy?... You don't need a partner for that. And you have one tonight. I intend to give as much pleasure as I get.

I find myself pulling back, too often, from friends. It's easier, and more self-indulgent, to be alone. I need a nudge out of that cycle from time to time.

Death was a mean bastard.

I think it's an old stud." "Like your grandfather?" "Ha! Funny!

That's unbelievably cruel." "Nothing cruel's unbelievable.

Still, it maintained that underlying mystique that drew crowds of dreamers.

Martha, I wonder if you can ever truly know someone you love until you have been married near forever." It was Martha's turn for an encouraging nod. "Loving someone and coming to know them better," Jack went on, "I think that will be an adventure all its own.

You didn't make lieutenant without wading through, and learning to cut through, the usual crap.

Easy enough. I was thinking in the neighborhood of five million." She swallowed—hard—the spaghetti she'd wound around her fork. "I don't have that big a bucket, or spend much time in that neighborhood. You make it." "Done." He

Maybe a little break," she muttered. "Just maybe." She'd lucked out with Mason Tobias. He might've been a little dingy

Comes off like she's got the mental capacity of broccoli

They'd all wait for her until the morning.

Maybe that's what people did, bounced back where they were supposed to be, bumps or not.