“A cop? You married a bloody cop?"
"I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“You had no right. No right to stand in front of me.” He turned back now, his eyes vividly blue with temper that had gone from frigid to blaze. “No fucking right to risk yourself on my behalf”
“Oh really. Is that so?” She stalked forward until they were toe to toe. “Okay, you tell me. You keep looking me dead in the eye and you tell me you wouldn’t have done the same if it was me in jeopardy.”
“That’s entirely different.”
“Why?” Her chin came up and her finger jabbed hard into his chest. “Because you have a penis?”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“An eye for an eye.”
“That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.”
“The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“She doesn’t like you, McNab.
“I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“You’re arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law.”
He lifted one amused brow. “And your point would be?”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“That’s a ‘Fuck Me’ car and you know it.” ~ Dallas
“Well, yeah. Maybe. But it’s got to be fast.” ~ Peabody”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“Please, Eve, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation.”
“Keep it up, ace, and I’ll give you a public display of affection that’ll have you limping for a week.”
“Now I'm excited.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“Any hot plans for the weekend, Peabody?”
“My usual, flicking off men like flies, breaking hearts, crushing souls.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“[First line]
“The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“Brian's face broke out in a wide grin as he slapped Roarke on the back. "That's a woman, isn't it?"
"Delicate as a rose, my Eve. Fragile and quiet natured." He grinned himself when he heard her curse, loud and vicious. "A voice like a flute."
"And you're sloppy in love with her."
"Pitifully.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“It’s so difficult for two shy people to manage.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“People who act like assholes get treated like assholes”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don’t you’re buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“I figure it doesn’t work that way. It finds you, and it grabs you by the throat and you can’t do a damn thing about it.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“And you figure because the two of you don't rub smooth she'll let things slide?" Her eyes, colored to match her hair were round and sad. "That's jerk thinking, Sumerset. Dallas'll work till she drops to do right by you, and I figure you know it. If somebody came after you, she'd step between and take the hit, because that's who she is. I figure you know that, too.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“Organized religion baffled her, made her vaguely uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they’d fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“I know what my job is, and I'm damned good at it."
When he snorted she came back down two steps. She came down slowly, her movements deliberate, because her own temper was much too close to the boil. "Good enough to have figured out why you've hated the sight of me since I first walked in that door. Since you understood Roarke had feelings for me. Part A was easy -- a first-year rookie could have snagged onto it. I'm a cop, and that's enough for you to hold me in contempt."
He offered a thin smile. "I've had little reason to admire those in your profession."
"Part B was tougher." She came down another step so that their eyes were level. "I thought I had that figured, too, but I didn't realize that Part B had a couple of stages. Stage one: I'm not one of the glamorous, well-bred stunners that Roarke socialized with. I haven't got the looks or the pedigree or the style to suit you."
He felt a quick tug of shame, but inclined his head. "No, you don't. He could have had anyone, his pick of the cream of society."
"But you didn't want just anyone for him, Summerset. That's stage two, and I just figured that out this morning. You resent me because I'm not Marlena. That's who you wanted for him," she said quietly as the color slipped out of his cheeks. "You hoped he'd find someone who reminded you of her, instead you got stuck with an inferior mode. Tough luck all around.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“The damn hawker nearly caught the bumper.” More amazed than angry now, Eve shook her head. “A guy in air boots nearly outran a cop ride. What’s the world coming to, Peabody?” Eyes stubbornly shut, Peabody didn’t move a muscle. “I’m sorry, sir, you’re interrupting my praying.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“Unidentified contact and/or jammed transmissions to police officers are illegal. I'��m obliged to caution you that this transmission is being traced through CompuGuard, and it'��s being recorded."��
"��I'��m aware of that. Since I'��ve just committed what worldly society would consider first-degree murder, I'��m not overly concerned about minor nuisances like electronic violations. I'��ve been blessed by the Lord."
"��Oh yeah?"�� Terrific, she thought, just what she needed.
"I have been called on to do His work, and have washed myself in the blood of His enemy."��
"��Does He have a lot of them? I mean, you'��d think He'��d just, what, smite them down Himself instead of enlisting you to do the dirty work."��”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“dark and deep in her eyes. He’d opened his mouth without any idea what he would”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
“uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they’d fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death
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“war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative, translative, comitative. Sixteen cases of the Finnish noun. Odd, some languages get by with only singular and plural. The American Indian languages even failed to distinguish number. Except Sioux, in which there was a plural only for animate objects. The blue room was round and warm and smooth. No way to say warm in French. There was only hot and tepid If there's no word for it, how do you think about it? And, if there isn't the proper form, you don't have the how even if you have the words. Imagine, in Spanish having to assign a sex to every object: dog, table, tree, can-opener. Imagine, in Hungarian, not being able to assign a sex to anything: he, she, it all the same word. Thou art my friend, but you are my king; thus the distinctions of Elizabeth the First's English. But with some oriental languages, which all but dispense with gender and number, you are my friend, you are my parent, and YOU are my priest, and YOU are my king, and YOU are my servant, and YOU are my servant whom I'm going to fire tomorrow if YOU don't watch it, and YOU are my king whose policies I totally disagree with and have sawdust in YOUR head instead of brains, YOUR highness, and YOU may be my friend, but I'm still gonna smack YOU up side the head if YOU ever say that to me again;
And who the hell are you anyway . . .?”
― Samuel R. Delany, quote from Babel-17
“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”
― Ruta Sepetys, quote from Out of the Easy
“Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.”
― Maya Angelou, quote from Mom & Me & Mom
“physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from Gentle Warrior
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