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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e6c8196 | Eve - Where's my ice-cream? | J.D. Robb | ||
| 998c14b | He could want her, every minute of every day. Was certain he would go on wanting her after he was dead and gone. She was the pulse, the reason, the breath. | J.D. Robb | ||
| fcc3c5c | Love can die. It can be killed, no matter how alive it was, it's not invulnerable. Mine's dead. It's dead and it's buried. I just want one thing more, and that's the chance to look him in the face and tell him he's nothing. If I can do that one thing, it'll be enough. | J.D. Robb | ||
| b550af8 | Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it | happiness inspirational | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 3ac0ecf | A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| d55c635 | If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived. | goodness history life passion past | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| a7245ab | It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened. | growing-up history men-and-women | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| dfe9f1b | That was the sound of a sneer." "Was it?" Amused, aroused, he distracted her with a nibble on her bottom lip. "I can never tell the difference. And what sound is this?" "What sound?" He drove himself into her, one powerful and deep thrust that ripped a shocked cry from her throat. "That one." He lowered his head, tasting the heat that rose to her flesh even as her hips arched to meet him. "And that one." She struggled to get her breath back.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2cf5f1c | Everything was there, obvious to us both, but it all remained unsaid. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| c40cb71 | Sadder and sadder," Peabody said when they were back on the sidewalk. "I guess you don't think of how many people you brush up against, or how they might remember you. The guy at your corner deli, or the owner of your favorite take-out spot. The clerk where you usually shop for clothes. Not to sound too Free-Agey, but it matters. It all matters, what we leave behind with the people we brush up against." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 00e6006 | And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 35b485f | She decided working security at the SkyMall ranked high on her list of worst ten jobs, right up there with shark tank cleaners--somebody had to do it--and proctologists. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3ab2309 | Thanks, Lieutenant. Casey's going to be really excited about Saturday. Um, can we bring something?" "Like what?" "A dish?" "We have dishes. We have lots of dishes." "He means food," Peabody interpreted. "Don't worry about it, Trueheart. They're got plenty of that, too." "Why would somebody bring food when they're coming to your place to eat?" Eve wondered when Trueheart hurried after Baxter. "It's a social nicety." | J.D. Robb | ||
| ec72660 | After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6632a47 | You have to trust, or you're only living half a life. You have to try to help or even that half is empty. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 11c30aa | She started out, then pressed a hand on the door to brace herself. "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 te.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3fbb879 | Ours is a spiritual bond I treasure, something deep and strong, and older than time. We are, in essence, the same person, two sides to one coin. Death unites us. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5e84135 | Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9a5067c | The wince and muffled oath he gave when he stepped into the water got a laugh out of her. "It's not that hot." "If I had a lobster, we'd boil it and eat it." "You set the temp." "So I did, and now, with no lobster in sight, we're boiling my balls." He'd set it for her, she thought, so she could soak in the heat and the scent, turn off her mind with some relaxation program. She thought of what she'd overheard him saying to Mira, how he'd loo.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9bbccd7 | I've got nothing." Eve swiveled around to him. "Zip. You've got something. What?" "Apparently, it's not coffee," he said with a glance at his empty mug. "What am I, a domestic droid?" "If so, why aren't you wearing your frilly white apron and little white cap, and nothing else?" She sent him a pained look of sincere bafflement. "Why do men think that kind of getup is sexy?" "Hmm, let me think. Mostly naked women wearing only symbo.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 422d93f | He was hitting on you, however." "Reflex, not targeted." "Agreed, which is why he lives." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 06d17d8 | That's perfect, isn't it? I'm sex and money; you're dead bodies. What a team we are ." "Best to stick with our strengths." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0cf058f | Not in the mood for pasta?" He narrowed those bold blue eyes to give her a critical study. "You must've hit your head harder than we thought." "I was going to do it--get dinner, I mean. One of the fancy things you like, because--Hell." She gave up, hurried to him to wrap her arms around him. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was so pissed off at what happened, at myself, I didn't think." He stroked a hand down her hair first, then gave the chopp.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| f070d52 | Who's a girl?" "You're mine." His hands glided down her back, around and up to her breasts. "You're my girl." "Sap," she said, but in a little sigh as she gave him her lips again. She'd never been anybody's girl, had never wanted to be. It had always seemed a weak term to her, one of submission and vulnerability. But with him, it was sweet and foolish, and just exactly right." | J.D. Robb | ||
| c1c27e3 | Because he's better than that. Better than they are. He's young, he's good-looking, charming, efficient, smart, and skilled enough to come up with, or get someone else to come up with this e-virus that's got all you geeks stumped." "We're not stumped," Roarke corrected with some annoyance as they rode to the bedroom. "The bleeding investigation is ongoing and we're pursuing all shagging avenues." While it amused her to hear him quote the us.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| f1153cd | It's a fucking pharmaceutical conspiracy, Eve. We've wiped out just about every known plague, disease, and infection. Oh, we come up with a new one every now and again, to give the researchers something to do. But none of these bright-eyed medical types, none of the medi-computers can figure out how to cure the common fucking cold. You know why?" Even couldn't stop the smile. She waited patiently until Mavis finished another bout of explosi.. | humor peabody | J.D. Robb | |
| d9fd90c | Eeww." "Don't say 'eeww.' It's wussy." | J.D. Robb | ||
| b96d69c | She could see the tempest in his eyes, swarming in the blue of them with a kind of primal violence that made the breath catch in her throat and her pulse pound in response. "I need you." His fingers dived into her hair, dragging it back from her face, fisting again. "You can't know what kind of need is in me for you. There are times, do you understand me, I don't want it. I don't want this raging inside me. It won't stop." His mouth crushed.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 30ac772 | If there wasn't coffee, the entire world would shuffle around like zombies. | J.D. Robb | ||
| d708c5f | Marriage, she thought. Every bit as complicated and slippery as cop work. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6a92e81 | You're all right, Blue Eyes." She lifted her head to look into them. "You're all right, down the line. You ever want a free bang, you got one coming." "It would, no doubt be a memorable bang. But my wife is fiercely jealous and territorial." He grinned over at a very cold-eyed Eve. "Her? You? That's a kick in the ass." "Every damn day," Eve muttered, and strode out. She kept striding, out of the club, back into the comparatively fresh air o.. | hilarious marriage roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| a113f5e | It's going to work." "Classic," Roarke said. "What's going to work? What's classic? I want my jacket." "Forget it. You're going to walk right up to Milo the Mole's front door, and he's going to answer." "I am? He is?" "Damsel in distress, right?" Eve said to Roarke. "A very alluring damsel. Clever, Lieutenant." "Oh, okay. I get it. I look like I'm in trouble--all alone, unarmed. Harmless. Girl. He opens up to find out what's what. You shoul.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 130d5ec | Roarke, you've got to know I've got some bad stuff inside. It's like a virus that sneaks around the system, pops out when your resistance is low. I'm not a good bet." - Eve Dallas "I like long odds." He lifted her hand, kissed it. "Why don't we see it through? Find out if we can both win." - Roarke" | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 927941d | Lieutenant Dallas has just given you a brief demonstration of why she's one of the most valuable assets of the NYPSD. She observes, deduces, and reports with accuracy. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 64a4b97 | Some men find the cool, disinterested, and understated attractive. Makes them think you're deep. | J.D. Robb | ||
| c1ac344 | But sitting in her own home, with a real meal, and a man who not only listened but got it? She'd won life's trifecta. | J.D. Robb | ||
| db3f47a | You know, Roarke, you're kind of cute." Eve Dallas" -- | J.D. Robb | ||
| a1deb1b | A thin snow started to spit out of grumpy gray skies. Which meant, Eve knew, that at least fifty percent of the drivers currently on the road would lose a minimum of one-third of their intelligence quotient, any skill they'd previously held at operating a vehicle thereby turning what had been the standard annoying traffic into mayhem. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2d15be7 | EVE WASN'T SURE WHAT IT SAID ABOUT HER that she was more comfortable in the morgue than in a baby boutique. | J.D. Robb | ||
| fc8b040 | It's a damn small world when it sucks. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6e218b1 | Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee. | J.D. Robb | ||
| e61b5ea | An enormous urn of coffee was being put to use by both cops and servers. One of her own uniforms was helping himself to a tray of fancy finger food and another was already hitting the dessert cart. It only took her presence to have the room falling into stillness, and silence. "Officers, if you can manage to tear yourselves away from the all-you-can-eat buffet, take posts outside the doors of both kitchen exits. As cause of death has not ye.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3e7bd33 | Love changes everything. I proposed to my wife after we limped away from a physical altercation with another serial killer. Good times." "Feels" | J.D. Robb | ||
| 7b397bd | Eve bit into some bacon -- honestly, good sex, a hot shower, then bacon? Did a morning get any better? | J.D. Robb |