Top 250 J.D. Robb Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Cops and food, she thought. Put them in the same room, invite chaos.”

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

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54. “Roarke’s brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve’s body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.”

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55. “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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56. “There is no such thing in man’s nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. – NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.”

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

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

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

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

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

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64. “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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65. “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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66. “He took a money clip out of his pocket, pulled off several bills. “Take it. It’ll save you time.”

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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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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72. “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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73. “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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74. “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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75. “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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76. “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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77. “Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.”

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

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

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81. “I speak sarcasm fluently.”

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82. “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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83. “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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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. “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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86. “You’re courageous enough to do something that in some part of your heart you see as cowardly.”

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

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89. “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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90. “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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91. “I saw you, and that’s all it took. Sometimes I can’t breathe, I love you so much.”

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92. “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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93. “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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94. “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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95. “You’re Eve Dallas. You’re the love of my life. My heart and soul. You’re a cop, mind and bone. You’re a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occasionally mean as a badger, and more generous than you’ll admit.”

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96. “In that case I’ll just finish it out so you can swallow it all in one lump. I love you, and I need you every bit as much as you love and need me. Maybe I don’t say it as often or show it as smoothly, but that doesn’t make it any less true. If it pricks your ego to know that I’d protect you, that’s just too bad.”

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “One might be a coincidence.” Hands on her hips, she turned back. “Put them together it’s a pattern.”

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100. “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.”

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