Quotes from J.D. Robb

instructor—and

I want to give someone a job. Doing what? That's the thing. I don't know. And actually, I want YOU to give someone a job. His eyebrows rose. You want me to give someone a job doing... you don't know what? What's the point of having somebody who employs half the planet anyway if you can't say, 'Give this girl a job'?

Turning on her heel, Eve

Alone, Eve wondered how anyone managed to work in a room without a window. Then she wondered, with all of those books Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Maybe they were his window.

But something was broken in her. She wasn't suicidal, but in the end isn't that what happened? She risked her life, her health, her dreams every time she took those pills, washed them down with vodka.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. —LORD HALIFAX

to forging her career. She'd just landed a part in an

Look after my cop," he called after her. "Just you try licking off that plate, boy-o," she heard him say to the cat, "and see what happens." It made her grin all the way downstairs.

mood out of her. He slipped

jabbed a finger in the air at Martella. "Bump up

You can pop a few shopping programs into the computer, look at dozens of suitable dresses, order in what appeals to you.

Minute by minute, then hour by hour, then day by day. Work is solace, he said, friends are comfort. Life is for the living. You and I know that, even though we spend so much time with the dead - maybe because of that we know we have to live. Chale has been a great help to me. That's good, she said, thinking of the priest she'd suggested Morris talk to. You can ... you know, anytime. Yes. His lips curved. I know. You're work, and a friend, so have been both solace and comfort.

Both men refer to Carly Fisher as a girl—a small thing, maybe, but it shows an innate lack of respect for females in the workplace.

Overcoming and getting over are two very different things.

He was a man who adored women, and understood their wrath. In other words, he feared them.

This is what happened when you went and made friends. They had to go out and make friends, and then those friends somehow insinuated themselves into your life, or your work. Before you knew it you were hip-deep in people. And half of them were crazy.

People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

himself first and last. He'd had to, in order to survive and then to succeed. One was every bit as important to him as the other. The habit was difficult to

Peabody, am I an ass-kicker? Are you asking to see my scars, or is that a trick question? Shut up, Peabody

yourself on my behalf." "Oh really. Is that so?" She stalked forward

Guilt's oozing out of the son—name's Jimbo, and I'm sorry about that. And Bubba's getting sweaty.

one, no matter how much they love you—or don't love you—has the power to change you, Elise. That's all you. You choose to be happy or bitter or cruel or kind.