Top 250 J.D. Robb Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “Alone, Roarke took the gray fabric button from his pocket, the one he’d found on the floor of his limo. The one that had fallen from the jacket of that drab gray suit she’d worn the first time he’d seen her. Studying it, knowing he had no intention of giving it back to her, he felt like a fool.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “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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106. “The mind, and the unconscious mind in particular, is a canvas. We paint on it constantly. Art and music can add such colors, such style.”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.’ ” Looking at Roarke now, Morris managed a small smile. “Well said.”

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110. “Her feet were killing her. And it made her imagine traveling back in time, hunting down whoever had invented stiletto heels, and beating the crap out of him.”

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111. “Some people relax better without the confines of clothes,” Peabody said, then flushed when Eve cast a considering glance over her shoulder. “I’ve heard.”

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112. “Played nice while she worked things out. You’re married to a guy thirty years, you’ve got a serious investment. Gonna irritate you when he trades you in.” “I’ll keep that in mind.” “Me, I don’t hire hits.” She looked up at his mouth-watering face. “I’d give you the basic courtesy of killing you myself.”

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113. “You know better than to blame yourself.” “Knowing better doesn’t always stop it.”

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114. “Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She’d learned that one at her mother’s knee.”

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115. “If we do, I want to be the bad cop.” “You’re a lousy bad cop, Feeney. Face it.” He gave her a mournful look. “I outrank you, Dallas.” “I’m primary, and I’m better at bad cop. Live with it.” “I always have to be the good cop,” he muttered as they stepped into a well-lighted hallway with more marble, more gilt.”

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116. “I don’t get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They’ve got fists. It’s embarrassing to our entire gender.”

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117. “How can I love you and not be afraid? You’re my life, Eve, my heart. You’re asking, you’re wondering if I ever worry, if I ever fear, that one day Peabody or Feeney, your commander – a cop who’s become a friend – will knock on my door? Of course I do.”

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118. “Do you always drive this way?” “What way?” “As if we’re trying to outrun an earthquake.”

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119. “I don’t like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm.”

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120. “Can’t change what was,” she said with a shrug. “So you deal with what is.”

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121. “You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.”

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122. “Roarke wondered if she thought of how many more would be hers – victims and killers. And knew, as he knew her, she did.”

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123. “But it happened to us. At first you ask why – why did this happen to us? Then you realize, and try to accept, there is no why.” Lori leaned her head to Ira’s shoulder. “An evil person does evil things. There is no why.”

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124. “It’s more than you think it can be,” she heard herself say. “It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you’re never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if... but he’s always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he’s going to be there.”

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125. “Marriage is a freaking minefield.”

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126. “I don’t know. I never looked.” “Now that hurts.” With a laugh, Louise leaned back against the counter. “You don’t even bother to look, and you end up with Roarke.” “He just got in my way. Couldn’t get around him, so I figured I might as well keep him.”

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127. “Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time.” “That’s because people, by and large, are whacked.”

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128. “It’s a mistake to be too much one of your own as they’ll never see you as fully in charge.”

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129. “And that, she thought as he left her, summed up the miracle of her life. She had a home with him, and he’d be there.”

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130. “Love changes everything. I proposed to my wife after we limped away from a physical altercation with another serial killer. Good times.” “Feels.”

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131. “The man is a genius, and geniuses don’t have to abide by the same rules as the rest of the world.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “A lot of the general population are wrong.”

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134. “He was heading over the line when he strutted in here thinking he could rattle his federal balls at me.”

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135. “He could make her want simply by existing. There’d been no one else who could ever hold her heart with no more than a look, a word. He’d given her a life beyond survival, beyond even the badge that had been her world, and the symbol of that survival.”

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136. “As always when she saw the kind and dreamy eyes of Dennis Mira, her heart gave a little tug. Just something about him, she thought, with his cardigans and mussed hair, bemused smile.”

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137. “I’m not trying to box you in. I’m just trying to live with you.”

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138. “The surface can hide a great deal of turmoil.”

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139. “Why do they stare? They’re always staring. Like dolls,” she said as they walked into the building. “Or sharks.” “I.”

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140. “She needed, he knew, the human touch. His touch. It humbled him that she found strength there. That what they found in each other steadied them both. Soft here, and tender, to reaffirm who they were, what they’d beaten back. And would always beat back together.”

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141. “That was another thing about partners, she decided. They knew what would make you laugh, often before you did.”

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142. “Jeez. Okay, okay, sorry I jumped on you. I’m a little tense. Would you tell me, since you’re so brave and strong and smart, how you know this is the source?”

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143. “He knows his father started him on the path of, let’s say circumventing the law. That he has a predisposition for violence. He learned how to channel it, as you did. He had a goal – to get out, to have means and power. He accomplished that. Then he found you. He understands where he came from, and I imagine it’s part of his pride that he became the kind of man a woman like you would love.”

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144. “But, Christ on a tricycle, Roarke, this is going to be a pain in my ass.”

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145. “If men had to wear heels, they’d be outlawed across the land.”

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146. “How do you suppose they know the sheep are virgins?”

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147. “As man-candy went, he was a caloric binge. Eve thought it was easy to see why he had so many clients paying for a nibble.”

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148. “What are you smiling at?” she snapped at Roarke. “I’m a man, and I’m sitting here having coffee and cookies while two beautiful women snarl at each other. Being a man I’m required to wonder – perhaps imagine – whether there will soon be physical contact. Clothing may be ripped away. Why wouldn’t I smile?”

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149. “You’re not going to stay for the thing?” He took a bite of manicotti. “There’s nothing you could do, say, nothing you could possibly offer – including deviant sexual favors – that would induce me to be within a hundred yards of that baby shower.” “Crap.” She forked up a nice chunk of meatball. “Not even if I combined chocolate sauce with the outfit?” “Not even.” “There could be whipped cream. And choreography.” “An.”

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150. “She curled up beside him, realizing they both needed this space of intimacy as much as they’d needdd the reassurance and release. Her world had been rocked. She only understood how violent the shake had been now that it was stead again.”

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