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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 78fb876 | Dawson shoved away from his desk, stepped | J.D. Robb | ||
| 89172ad | Side, party got out of hand. Guy shot five people with a | J.D. Robb | ||
| add58b5 | She reached down, favoring her injured arm and chose a Galaxy bar that hadn't been flattened by the wrestling match. "I'm going home." "You didn't pay for that," Francois shouted after her. "Fuck you, Frank," she shouted back and kept going." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2c27c7c | That makes three suicides without logical explanations. Now, for people like Fitzhugh and the senator, with their kind of financial base, there's counseling at the snap of a finger. Or in cases of terminal illness--physical or emotional--voluntary self-termination facilities. But they took themselves out in bloody and painful ways. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 02beae2 | Money without honor is a disease. BALZAC | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4c602eb | Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Money | J.D. Robb | ||
| adde904 | Weren't they a pair? Roarke thought, two veteran cops who've waded through blood and madness. But put a bit of sex on the table between them, and they're as fidgety as virgins at an orgy. | J.D. Robb | ||
| f8df445 | Lots of medical, scientific, technological advances come through little bits of craziness, a lot of ego." "Or" | J.D. Robb | ||
| e7e9acc | Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him." "Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick." She" | J.D. Robb | ||
| e5fd9cf | done | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9629103 | bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I've got a couple who hit low | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4abdcef | Couples still indulge in courting rituals, humans still kill humans, and politicians still kiss babies and lie. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 7a7e443 | I'm not stupid." No, Eve thought, you redefine the word." | J.D. Robb | ||
| ff8175b | Everyone likes everybody and Pettibone is the original nice guy." "Wife's a dink," Peabody offered. "The dink was still smart enough to hook a rich husband." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2485cb7 | call woke | J.D. Robb | ||
| f1fb4ea | Comes off like she's got the mental capacity of broccoli, | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2335dad | Eternity | My Reading Checklist | ||
| fd9fa5d | course, but it was more for form than from | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0a23a63 | The media's no more objective than the last ratings term. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4230b10 | It's rare in war for either side to consider the innocent." Why" | J.D. Robb | ||
| aa53ee4 | life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered." A" | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6e646ac | those rent with option deals. You can do that | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0683297 | It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if . . . but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there." Surprised" | J.D. Robb | ||
| 1271a3b | I've got a tip." "Me, too. Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6980cca | Thank you, Lieutenant." "Which is why you are now assigned to me as my permanent aide. You want a detective shield, Officer?" Peabody knew what she was being given: the opportunity, the gift out of nowhere. She closed her eyes a moment until she had her voice under control. "Yes, sir, I do." "Good. You'll work your ass off for it. Get the data I requested, and let's move." "Right away." At the door, Peabody paused, turned back. "I'm very gr.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 551273b | Champagne for my wife," he said without taking his eyes off her. He drew her chair back himself. "Let me introduce you to Natalie and Sam Derrick." "So this is Eve! I'm just thrilled to meet you." Natalie flashed a mile-wide grin, even as her gaze tracked over Eve's clothes. "Glad you could join us." Sam held out a hand the size of a rump roast, pumped Eve's twice. "Roarke's told us it's hard for you to get away from work." "I just can't th.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 482c719 | She used her master to gain access to the dumpy three-story walk-up, ignored the rickety elevator, and took the stairs to the top floor. | J.D. Robb | ||
| a7b68e6 | Mr. Ail-American | J.D. Robb | ||
| bd46c3f | The mind, and the unconscious mind in particular, is a canvas. We paint on it constantly. Art and music can add such colors, such style. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 41da53d | Creating life is the job of a higher power. It's our job, our duty and our joy, to nurture life, protect and respect it. | J.D. Robb | ||
| ce9f213 | Replicating human beings in a lab, selecting traits, eliminating others. Who decides what are the parameters? What of the failures, as there must be in any sort of experimentation of procedures. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9df46a3 | Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that make us. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6351359 | Meanwhile-- | J.D. Robb | ||
| 426a5b5 | I've never told anybody before." "Did it help?" "I don't know. Maybe. Christ, I'm so tired." "You could lean on me." He slipped an arm around her, nestled her head in the curve of his shoulder. "For a little while," she murmured. "Until we get to New York." "For a little while then." He pressed his lips to her hair and hoped she would sleep." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 7ab7299 | Bet you haven't had time to rub on the breast cream either." She turned on Roarke. "Some reason you can't slap some on your hands before you feel her up?" "I do try," he said, throwing Eve to the wolves without a qualm. "She's a difficult woman." "Let" | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4dd70af | Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken. | J.D. Robb | ||
| badb996 | The service bar in the parlor had been lightly used, some macadamias and | J.D. Robb | ||
| ebcb24d | when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 28c8931 | And since even the thought of winter precipitation caused the majority of drivers to lose any shred of competency they might own, she spent most of her trip avoiding, leapfrogging over, and cursing every cab and commuter. The | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0cb497d | The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More | J.D. Robb | ||
| bfa7bde | The computer hummed, sliced Roarke's face onto the screen. Such an intriguing couple. His background was no prettier than the cop's had been. But he'd chosen, at least initially, the other side of the law to make his mark. And his fortune. Now they were a set. A set that could be destroyed on a whim. But not yet. Not for some little time yet. After all, the game had just begun. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9d63320 | He was out of line, | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5ac2697 | Lawrence | J.D. Robb | ||
| 8f4467c | up. "He's hardly my type," | J.D. Robb |