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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 100008d | I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn't an unhappy man." He kept his eyes on hers as his thumb brushed lightly over the back of her hand. "Then, one day I felt something--a prickle at the back of my neck, a heat at the base of my spine. And standing at a memorial for the dead, I turned, and there you were." He turned her hand over, interlocking fingers. "There you were, and it al.. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 4daab6b | You know what, Peabody? Justice means a little more to me than a pretty gold star on my record or some fucking captain's bars. And if you want to go run after lover boy and stroke his ego, no one's stopping you.' Peabody's jaw twitched, but her voice was even. 'I'm not going anywhere, Lieutenant.' 'Fine, just stand here and look martyred because I--' In midtirade, Eve stopped, sucked in her breath. 'I'm sorry. You're a goddamn handy target .. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2f39c8a | No screen?" She nudged him away, scanned the walls. "Seriously? What kind of place is this?" "The sort where people use bedrooms for sex and sleep, which is exactly waht I have in mind." To prove it, he tumbled her onto the bed. It squeaked. "What is that? Did you hear that? Is there a farm animal in here?" "I'm fairly certain they keep those outside. It's the bed." He tugged her shirt over her head. Testing, she lifted her hips, let them .. | whoopee | J.D. Robb | |
| b51adde | Sometimes a well-placed lie saved friendships, and sanity. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 94f1a8f | She rose. "I'll just go get the wine." "I'm not interested in wine." She walked away, tossed a glance over her shoulder. "You will be. When I start licking it off you." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9b50001 | You think I don't know, that I don't understand what that cost you. But you're wrong." She couldn't keep her voice steady, gave up trying. "You're wrong, Roarke. I do know. There's no one else in the world who would want, who would need to kill for me. No one else in the world who would step back from it because I asked it. Because I needed it." She turned, and the first tear spilled over. "No one but you." "Don't. You'll do me in if you cr.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| c6537cd | What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 8ae37e9 | Drinking doesn't make problems go away. Just because you can't remember them doesn't mean they're not there. | J.D. Robb | ||
| d077aa6 | He'd tended her wounds, as she had his, and knew she healed well, healed fast. His resilient, hardheaded cop. But there were parts inside that tough, disciplined body that remained fragile--perhaps always would. And those vulnerable places pulled at him to protect, to comfort, to do anything he could to spare her a bruise or blow. The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyon.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 86f698d | I think possibilities often come unexpectedly, and what you do with them, how much you're willing to risk for them, can change your life and make it more than you ever imagined it could be. You | J.D. Robb | ||
| aac0f6d | With a sigh, he pulled out his link. "What are you doing?" "Ordering pizza -- for your division -- and more for the E and B team. And don't give me any bloody grief about it. I'm a bit on edge here as I couldn't get through the bloody, buggering door for more than five minutes -- and that was after Feeney started on it before me. And my wife about to be blown to bits on the other side." She knew the fear, the soul-emptying terror of it. .. | J.D. Robb | ||
| ead6577 | She woke to the scent of coffee, and wondered if that was how mornings in heaven smelled. | J.D. Robb | ||
| a0d7bda | She broke off a piece of bacon and offered it to the cat who sat staring holes through her. "For him, this is makeup sex. That's all you get," she said when Galahad inhaled the bacon then affectionately butted his head against her calf. "Just FYI, if you let another man rub up against you, and I sniff it out, you won't be able to buy me off with bacon." He handed her the syrup pitcher so she could drown her French toast. "So noted." | marriage | J.D. Robb | |
| 24ac498 | Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3f60bc2 | It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof | dark-humor drunken-behaviour funny-as-hell | J.D. Robb | |
| 087515c | When it's my turn, don't do this. Recycle the parts, burn the rest. | J.D. Robb | ||
| aa57ffd | If we keep him for ourselves, we can do anything we want with him!' 'OH, REALLY?! Does that include baking him in a quiche?!' 'NO, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT! IT INCLUDES EATING HIM RAW!' 'That's too bad. He would've made a fine pastry filling. | quiche stupid-stupid-rat-creatures | Jeff Smith | |
| 1436331 | Fone Bone: HOLD IT! Thorn thinks Gran'ma Ben can help us get back to Boneville! Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME! Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything! Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!! | Jeff Smith | ||
| 869e8e8 | I'd tried to cope alone for far too long, and it hadn't done me any good at all. Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 5597e55 | I could not solve the puzzle of me. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 993668c | It takes a long time to learn to live with loss, assuming you ever manage it. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 5736497 | Her home was so...shiny. She was shiny too, her skin, her hair, her shoes, her teeth. I hadn't even realized before; I am matte, dull and scuffed. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 16eeea8 | I allowed my mind to wander. I've found this to be a very effective way of passing the time; you take a situation or a person and start to imagine nice things that might happen. You can make anything happen, anything at all, inside a daydream. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 1df0fdf | Wanting to die and dying, she found were two separate things. | Jane Yolen | ||
| 798e95d | Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap. | anorexia anorexia-nervosa deception eating-disorder escape false-friend falsehood haveb illness mental-illness self-deception trap treachery | Carol Lee | |
| 5ee01b1 | I repent nothing, | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 389d630 | No more countries, all borders unmanned. No more fire departments, no more police. No more road maintenance or garbage pickup. No more spacecraft rising up from Cape Canaveral, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from Vandenburg, Plesetsk, Tanegashima, burning paths through the atmosphere into space. No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help an.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| e4a26d0 | One of the few things that August didn't know about her was that sometimes when she looked at her collection of pictures she tried to imagine and place herself in that other, shadow life. You walk into a room and flip a switch and the room fills with light. You leave your garbage in bags on the curb, and a truck comes and transports it to some invisible place. When you're in danger, you call for the police. Hot water pours from faucets. Lif.. | parallel-universe | Emily St. John Mandel | |
| 69b11d8 | The power of human habit never failed to astonish her. How was it that two intelligent, decent people who basically loved each other could get so locked into a pattern of behavior that neither of them - or so she presumed - enjoyed? It was as if each knew the role he or she was expected to take and had no choice but to play it | Nicholas Evans | ||
| 1e717f1 | Annie looked into his eyes with their blood-crazed whites and for the first time in her life knew how one might come to believe in the devil. | Nicholas Evans | ||
| bc00394 | My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I hadn't a job. I hadn't any qualifications. I'd achieved nothing with my life. I'd never been happy. I had no husband or boyfriend. | sadness self-esteem | Marian Keyes | |
| 1574afb | You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you | Marian Keyes | ||
| ab89230 | You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 55feb2e | Grandma Harper has two green bottles shaped like women with black hair painted on their heads and a yellow glass colored captain's hat that she keeps her face powder in that I want too, and a picture of a naked girl in a swing, swinging way up in the air over castles in a blue sky. I don't know why I want those things, I just do. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 2ca74da | but she never did cry. She was too hurt to cry.... You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 1f79d01 | Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual, | Fannie Flagg | ||
| eb2cb04 | You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 194e2a3 | Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 2de09c9 | I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 0403232 | A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK. | wedding-night | Sophie Kinsella | |
| ed7e2e9 | Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping! | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 1acf51a | In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. And i do choose to trust him. I do. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| d369004 | I stare at him in indignation. This changes what? I was his guardian angel till three minutes ago. You can't just switch guardian angels because you feel like it. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| a10310e | I honestly feel as though I've run an obstacle course to get here. In fact, I think, they should list shopping as a cardiovascular activity. My heart never beats as fast as it does when I see a "reduced by 50 percent" sign." | Sophie Kinsella |