“Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“Can you imagine what I wouldn't risk for you? You can't, because there's nothing. There's bloody nothing" - Roarke”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“Life has very little even ground.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“Sit up, and no whining."
"I don't whine."
"Rarely," he agreed. But when you do, you make up for the lack of quantity with quality.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“Eve: "You already own half the universe"
Roarke: "Why settle for half when you can have all?”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“I won't say I'm sorry." He lifted his hand, skimmed his fingers over her cheek. "I wouldn't mean it. But I will say I love you. I've never meant anything more."
He drew her into his arms. She pressed her face to his shoulder and held on. "I've been so messed up."
"So have I." He brushed his lips over her hair, felt his world balance again. "I've missed you, Eve."
"I won't let the job screw this up."
"It doesn't. We manage that on our own." He drew her back, touched his lips gently to hers. "But it keeps things lively, doesn't it?"
She sighed, stepped back. "It's gone."
"What is?"
"I've had this low-grade headache for a couple of days. It's gone. I guess you were my headache."
"Darling. That's so sweet.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“She woke to sunlight and the scent of coffee. The first thing she saw was Roarke, with a mug of coffee in his hand.
"how much would you pay for this?"
"Name your price." she sat up took it from him, drank gratefully. "this is one of my favorite parts of the marriage deal." She let the caffeine flow through her system. "I mean the sex is pretty good, but the coffee...the Cofee is amazing. And you're all-round handy yourself most of the time.. thanks."
"Don't mention it.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“Well, as we were saying when last we met—"
"I don't have to say dick to you without my lawyer."
"Did I ask you to say dick? Peabody, replay the record and verify that I at no time requested that the subject say dick.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
“Gee, Vernon, now you're scaring me. Not the union rep." She gave a deliberate shudder.
"You won't be so smart when you're hit with a lawsuit, and I start bleeding that rich husband you hooked."
"My God, Peabody, a lawsuit. I feel faint."
"Don't worry, Lieutenant, I'll catch you.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Judgment in Death
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“<...> maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember.”
― Sarah Winman, quote from When God Was a Rabbit
“The English have a better idea of right and wrong. They still believe in hell, I think, and perhaps that keeps them from brutality. Germany has ceased to believe in hell. And so they create hell for innocent men and have no fear that they themselves will ever face condemnation. I tell you, Jacob,” the professor whispered to Theo, “Germany has sold its soul, and the fire it brings to the world will come back to itself. Hitler is Satan. Mein Kampf is his book of black magic. Germany is Faust. And the hour will come when . . .” His voice trailed off. “When what, Professor?” Theo asked, hoping the old man was not falling to sleep. “Like the Faust of Marlowe, Germany will watch the clock run out. And there will be no salvation.”
― Bodie Thoene, quote from Vienna Prelude
“It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“Education, medical treatment, and work are the natural rights of every citizen in the world.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, quote from The Yacoubian Building
“different forms. “The verbal intercourse of these raven-beings of the planet Saturn is somewhat like our own. But their way of speaking is the most beautiful I have ever heard. “It can be compared to the music of our best singers when with all their being they sing in a minor key. “And as for the quality of their relations with each other—I don’t even know how to describe it. It can be known only by existing among them and having the experience oneself. “All that can be said is that these bird-beings have hearts exactly like those of the angels nearest our Endless Maker and Creator. “They exist strictly according to the ninth commandment of our Creator: ‘Consider everything belonging to another as if it were your own, and so treat it.’ “Later, I must certainly tell you in more detail about those three-brained beings who arise and exist on the planet Saturn, since one of my real friends during the whole period of my exile in that solar system was a being of that planet, who had the exterior coating of a raven and whose name was Harharkh.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, quote from Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
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