Top 250 J.D. Robb Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord. – Romans 12:19.”

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2. “I know you love me, but I don’t know why. I look at you and I just can’t get why it’s me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn’t be me, and I think it’d kill me if you ever figured that out.”

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3. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. – REVELATION.”

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4. “I hate patience. Slows everything down.”

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5. “Listen carefully. I’d crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.”

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6. “Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.”

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7. “There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.”

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8. “If you tell me I’m sensible in addition to normal and wise, I’m going to punch you in the stomach.”

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9. “She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”

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10. “Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.”

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11. “Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I’m coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they’re all dead, I’m going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.”

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12. “I thought it was ‘innocent until proven guilty″ “That’s just one of the bigger lies we live by.”

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13. “No. No, I don’t believe you’d betray me with her. I don’t believe you’d cheat on me. But I’m afraid, and I’m sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”

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14. “Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it’d be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River. Roarke: Chattahoochee Eve: What’s the difference? Roarke: Quite a bit, I’d think.”

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15. “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there’s always light and hope in the world.”

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16. “Didn’t people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?”

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17. “Why are you always smiling? What do you know?”

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18. “Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light. Slow,” he told her, “with awareness. Breathe out to empty. And pause, hold in that space between. Now in to fill.”

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19. “Music isn’t just a bunch of notes strung together, sweetheart. It’s life. It’s memory. Songs trigger specific and often predictable emotional reactions. Music’s an expression of emotion, desires.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “It’s lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn’t apply to retail.”

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22. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Shakespeare.”

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23. “Do you remember the first time we made love?” He touched his lips to hers as he said it. “We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn’t keep our hands off each other, couldn’t get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do.” He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. “It’s never going to change.”

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24. “The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon.”

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25. “Poison’s generally a woman’s weapon.” “Sexist.” “Statistics,” she countered.”

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26. “I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you’ve had enough of that crap, so it’s time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.”

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27. “You do keep busy.” “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” “Why? They’re idle when you’re sleeping – does he set up shop then? Are we all supposed to stay awake using our hands so the devil doesn’t make stuff? What if you broke your hand? Is he doing his workshop thing while you’re waiting to have it fixed?” Roarke contemplated the pale gold ceiling. “Such a simple, if moralistic, phrase now thoroughly destroyed.” “I keep busy, too.”

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28. “Don’t make threats unless you intend to follow through.”

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29. “Marital discord, she decided, was like some sort of low-grade fever that threw the whole system just slightly out of whack so you couldn’t manage to function at full capacity.”

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30. “People always think it can’t happen to them, instead of thinking it’s going to happen to somebody, why not me.” She.”

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31. “I will give you more pain than you can imagine. Your brains will leak out of your ears, and your bowels out of your ass. I will cause that to happen without leaving a mark, and every cop here will swear you died of natural causes.”

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32. “People who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun – and sweetness.”

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33. “He wore command as he wore his suit – a good fit with clean lines.”

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34. “You’re thinking I’m not aware of the worst that could happen. I am, but I just don’t believe the worst is going to happen.”

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35. “Why do sheep need a station? Are they catching trains? Where are they going? Why do they have to go there?”

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36. “You know, Roarke, you’re kind of cute.” Eve Dallas.”

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37. “Nature, nurture, both matter, both form us. But at some point, at so many points, the choices we make, the paths we take, they define us.”

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38. “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” “Why? They’re idle when you’re sleeping – does he set up shop then? Are we all supposed to stay awake using our hands so the devil doesn’t make stuff? What if you broke your hand? Is he doing his workshop thing while you’re waiting to have it fixed?”

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39. “New elements, she thought, pleased with the challenge. Roarke had been fiddling, adding some elements and upgrades. When she engaged in hand-to-hand with the second thief, she knew he’d fiddled with the programming with her in mind.”

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40. “Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.”

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41. “They were shadows in the dark, cocooned in its secrets, bathed in its silence, enspelled by each other.”

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42. “I get double credits. First I get the satisfaction credit of being hit on by the sexy DOT inspector, and second I get loyal and true credit for turning him down because I have my personal sexy nerd.”

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43. “You go into marriage, you plow a road. You’re going to hit rough patches, and some may be rougher and last longer than others, but you’ve got choices to make. You work to smooth them out, you hold until they do, or they don’t. You stick with the road, or you get off. But you don’t do something to make it worse, don’t do something that maybe makes you feel better for the short term while it sucker punches the person you’re married to.”

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44. “Cops and food, she thought. Put them in the same room, invite chaos.”

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45. “I like your style, Lieutenant Dallas,” he said when they’d fought their way to the car. “I like it a lot. And by the way, I don’t think I’m in love with you anymore. I know I am.“-Roarke.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “Then we’d better stop her.” Coating the hammering fear with calming ice, Roarke worked precisely. “I’m not losing my wife today. I need more shagging light here.”

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48. “And there was nothing in his life he could remember fearing as much as he feared knocking on the bright blue door of that old stone house.”

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49. “Two lost souls. He’d once called them that. She wondered if they’d stopped being lost when they’d found each other.”

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50. “Time doesn’t heal, whatever they say. It’s how we use the time that can heal.”

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