Top 250 J.D. Robb Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Time doesn’t heal, whatever they say. It’s how we use the time that can heal.”

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53. “Love turned everybody’s brain sideways, just like a stunner.”

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54. “What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.”

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55. “The man missed nothing. It was almost spooky.”

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56. “Problem is, it’ll be like looking for the crazy needle in a stack of needles. And nobody say ‘haystack,’” she warned. “Because that’s just stupid.”

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57. “I don’t remember, and I don’t want to remember. I’ve been a victim, and once you have, you need to do whatever it takes not to be one again.”

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58. “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.”

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59. “When Eve started to climb in, Roarke took her hand and tumbled her into his lap. “Hey.” Mortified, she jabbed with her elbow. “I love to fluster her when she’s on duty,” Roarke said, wrestling Eve back onto his lap. “And how was your day, Peabody?” Peabody.”

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60. “No one, she tought as the breath trembled through her lips, no one had ever looked at her as he did. In a way that told her she was the center.”

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61. “I pray our bond can be repaired, and I pray she comes to understand our bond was forged and will only hold strong in death.”

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62. “Eve supposed everything about Nadine looked mag, from her sweep of streaky blonde hair to the toes of her jazzed shoes. She had a foxy, angular face, observant green eyes, and a slim body that curved appropriately in her on-camera suit of power red. She was smart, she was sneaky, she was cynical. And for reasons Eve imagined neither of them fully understood, they’d become friends.”

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63. “He took a money clip out of his pocket, pulled off several bills. “Take it. It’ll save you time.”

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64. “It’s here, inside me, and it’ll bite off pieces when it can. But I can take it because you’re there. Because you know how it feels. You’re the only one who really knows. And becasue you love me enough to feel it. When you look at me, and I see that, I can take anything.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.”

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67. “But he knows me better than I figured. He knows she matters to me.” “And he’ll count on that messing you up. You gonna let it?”

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68. “Real love’s beautiful, elusive, and mean as a snake.”

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69. “He’s a fine young man, and one who loves you without restrictions. Finding a mate, a true one, is a rare and precious thing.” And the heart of the heart, she thought. Yes, he’d found that, too. “I don’t even know how it happened, but even when he pisses me off, I’m grateful every day it did.” “The best possible description for a good marriage.”

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70. “It’s a damn small world when it sucks.”

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71. “Bright blessings on both of you, and safe travels wherever the path takes you.”

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72. “They are not to be scarfed, the cinnamon sticky bun, but savored.”

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73. “What did she say?” Eve asked when they got into the car. “Here’s love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.”

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74. “I love you.” His eyes met hers briefly, and it was there. The simplicity of it. The enormity of it.”

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75. “Okay.” Mavis nodded decisively. “Then you tear it down. You don’t take no for an answer. You nag and you pick and you stick until it pops out of him. Whatever it is. Girls are good at this, Dallas.” “I’m not good at being a girl.” “Sure you are. You’re your own kind of girl. Think of it as kicking his ass until he cracks.”

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76. “Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. – Frank A. Clark.”

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77. “There’s always a way out. You just have to pay the price, whether it’s money, status, the emotional hit, or all of that and more. Cheating’s cheap and it’s lazy.”

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78. “You’re courageous enough to do something that in some part of your heart you see as cowardly.”

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79. “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.”

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80. “I speak sarcasm fluently.”

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81. “There were times during the weeks and weeks – months really – of planning, of selecting, of working out all the tiny details, I felt impatient, even annoyed with myself. There were times I doubted, times I nearly lost my courage and my focus. It’s too easy to become discouraged when no one values your skills and your efforts.”

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82. “Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn’t mean we stop, but it does mean we can’t comfort ourselves with blame. It’s easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.”

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83. “I’m not strong.” “You’re wrong,” Eve said as she rose. “You came here, you asked to help someone who needs help. You’re no weak sister, Mrs. Patrick, and he can’t make you one.”

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84. “When I came in and you were sleeping, I thought: There’s my soldier, exhausted from her wars.” He lifted her hand, kissed her fingers. “Now, I look, and I think: There’s my woman, soft and lovely.” Her lips curved as he undressed her. “Where do you get this stuff?” “It just comes to me. I’ve only to look at you, and the world comes to me. You’re my life.”

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85. “The huge cat, Galahad, was draped over the back of Eve’s sleep chair like a drunk over a bar at last call. Since he’d spent several hours the night before attacking boxes, fighting with ribbon, and murdering discarded wrapping paper, she left him where he was so he could sleep it off.”

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86. “If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you’re nothing. I’ve been nothing. I can’t be nothing ever again.” “Who.”

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87. “Eventually you’ll be next. Eventually you’ll disappoint him, and he’ll feel betrayed by you. Idols always fall, Eve.”

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88. “Shut up. If you don’t shut up, if you don’t cease resisting immediately, I will pull your tongue out of your mouth, drag it around your neck, and strangle you with it.”

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89. “Roarke pointed a finger at Galahad who’d begun his crouch toward the berries. The cat turned his head toward the screen as if suddenly enraptured by the financial new.”

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90. “When it’s my turn, don’t do this. Recycle the parts, burn the rest.”

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91. “He did something he rarely did. He touched her. Just a pat of his hand over the back of hers. But it was, Eve realized, a kind of intimacy. An affectionate contact between comrades, and more personal than any act the victim had ever exchanged with a client.”

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92. “Whatever came before, whatever comes after, I know what love is because of you.” He took her free hand. “Whatever came before, whatever comes after, it’s you who’ve shown me love changes everything. Lifts everything. Gives everything.”

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93. “One might be a coincidence.” Hands on her hips, she turned back. “Put them together it’s a pattern.”

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94. “Eve got her first real clue why so many women carried handbags the size of water buffalos when Mira pulled a first aid kit out of hers. “I’m.”

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95. “Thoughts, ideas, music, desires, poetry, anger, hate. People speak of the heart, Lieutenant, but it’s the brain that holds all the magic and mystery of the human species. It elevates us, separates us, defines us as individuals. And the secrets of it – well, it’s doubtful we’ll ever know them all.”

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96. “Some men find the cool, disinterested, and understated attractive. Makes them think you’re deep.”

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97. “In a few weeks she wouldn’t just be Eve Dallas, lieutenant, homicide. She’d be Roarke’s wife. How she would manage to be both was more of a mystery to her than any case that had ever come across her desk.”

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98. “Eve.” He took both her hands, brought them to his lips. He wanted to gather her up, cover her in something soft, something beautiful. He wanted to hold her until every horrid memory was washed away. “What you are is a miracle.”

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99. “You have to trust, or you’re only living half a life. You have to try to help or even that half is empty.”

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100. “I know love, and what it does to you, for you. I know that it can bloom out of friendship, or that friendship can open out of love. Both are precious. And when you have both, there’s little that can’t be done.”

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