Quotes from J.D. Robb

sure bet, the crowd hadn't packed the

Love struck her, as it did often and without warning. Not the steady day-to-day feeling she'd grown used to, but the hot, wild spurt of it that geysered up and filled her with so many feelings they couldn't be separated. Delight, confusion, possessiveness, lust, and a kind of smugness that butted right up against wonder.

course, but it was more for form than from

Sometimes slime slides

Do you know what it is to find someone who accepts you for what you are, and is willing to love you anyway?

People like murder, Peabody. They jive on it when it's got at least one of those degrees of separation. Reading about it, watching vids about it, turning on the evening news to hear about it. As long as it isn't too close.

I'm driving to Brooklyn! Because Eve was slightly in front of her, Peabody risked a butt wiggle. I saw that. You couldn't have seen that. Only moms have the metaphorical eyes in the back of their heads. Moms are just cops with kids.

Not even a stray bagel.

this is one of my favorite parts of the marriage deal. ...I mean the sex is pretty good, but the coffee...The coffee is amazing!

being alone. He wanted a woman

box, lifted the wrapped lid. And nearly blubbered again when she saw the little music box. When

We're not going to let a bad guy screw with one of us," Peabody said as they got on the elevator. "And that's a fact.

Paperwork could kill.

examined her nails, picked idly at

It's like she just can't be happy. I don't get that when there's so much to be happy about. Look what we get to do for a living. Yeah, sometimes it's hard, but mostly it's just fun. And they pay us a lot of money. Everything's easier, it's better when you let yourself be happy. It's like she can't.

All right, team." Randa lifted the tent between Mavis's legs. "Positions." "Why is this my position?" Eve demanded when she was maneuvered to the bottom of the bed.

TITLES BY J. D. ROBB Naked in Death

I need to see you again. Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. Roarke, what's going on here? Lieutenant. He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. Indications are we're having a romance. Then he laughed, kissed her again, hard and quick. I believe I could have held a gun to your head and you wouldn't have looked as terrified. Well, you'll have several days to think it through, won't you? She had a feeling several years wouldn't be enough.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that makes us. We have to love, I think - as forthy as that sounds - we have to love to be fully alive, fully human.

That did eat up considerable time and effort. But I carved out a little time between bloodbaths. I've just put it together for you this morning, while you were getting a little more beauty sleep." "Is that a dig?" "Darling, how is telling you you're beautiful a dig?" Her answer was a snort as she strapped on her weapon.

She could smell death there. No matter what was used to eradicate it, the sulky stink of it slid through cracks, around doorways, and it tainted the air with the grinning reminder of mortality.

From my seat, stupid's not listening to your gut.

taught him never to look at skin—the color of skin is nothing. We're all God's children. He was a good boy. I told him, he had to work, that all of us must earn our way. So he took the work there, there where they killed him. Because I told him to.

Life, he thought, was much too uncertain for some to risk saving the best for last.