Top 250 J.D. Robb Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “She didn’t hurry as she walked to him. Something told her he was a man too used to people – women certainly – rushing toward him. So she took her time, her long, slow strides flapping her borrowed coat around her chilly legs.”

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152. “Parenthood always has its individual structure. And it’s a risky business. You do your best.”

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153. “When you find nothing... it means you’re eliminating what surrounds the something.”

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154. “The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.”

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155. “Whatever she’d been, whatever she’d become, she was more because he loved her. So.”

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156. “There was Ireland in his voice, dreamy wisps of it that could, unexpectedly, wind around her heart.”

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157. “You have power over a powerful man. His love for you gives you the power, though I suspect there are times the two of you fight like cats.”

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158. “A man can be pulled in by beauty and not see beneath it.”

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159. “We have a Homicide, and a Code Five in number Eighteen-oh-three.”

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160. “Cops are good at keeping secrets.”

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161. “Put the past behind you – that’s what people always said. But those people didn’t get that the past was always behind you. Like a hound on the scent.”

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162. “When someone believes they’re smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they’re very, very dangerous.”

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163. “Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.”

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164. “Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.”

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165. “Your view on this is narrow. That’s how you’re built.” It didn’t feel narrow to her. It felt right. “Marriage is a promise. That’s one of the ways you talked me into it. If you break one part of the promise, it’s going to crack other parts.”

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166. “Edison? Like Thomas?” “Who’s Edison Thomas?” “I mean Thomas Edison. The inventor?” Peabody explained. “The lightbulb?” “No, for Christ’s sake, this isn’t about lightbulbs. Like the sicko guy who married his own mother, then whined about it.” After a moment’s confusion, Peabody’s own lightbulb went off. “That’s Oedipus. I’m pretty sure that’s Oedipus.” “Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.”

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167. “You saved me, Eve.” He watched her blink in absolute shock. “What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me.” He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.”

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168. “Two library visits in one evening. Why, it could become a habit.”

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169. “She woke to the scent of coffee, and wondered if that was how mornings in heaven smelled.”

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170. “It was orbital, it was mag, it was beyond the ult.”

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171. “When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.”

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172. “I couldn’t find my balance until I stood out there in the mist of the morning and saw you. Simple as that for me, it seems. There she is, so my life’s where it should be, whatever’s going on around it.”

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173. “Creative people study other people; and music is a science as much as an art, an emotion as much as a science.”

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174. “Idols always fall, Eve.”

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175. “Anatomy and biological process aside, creating life is a miracle, and should stay that way. Yes, we can – and we should – use our knowledge and our technology to insure the health and safety of the mother and child. Eliminate birth defects and disease whenever possible. But crossing that line into designing babies? Manipulating emotions, physical appearance, mental capacity, even personality traits? That’s no miracle. It’s ego.” The.”

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176. “Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They’re the weak ones, the shameful ones. What.”

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177. “When you love somebody, they’ve got to know who you are, even if you’re not exactly who you were.”

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178. “Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there’s peace without justice?” “No, I don’t,” Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.”

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179. “Roarke had to deal with her moods. It was in the marriage rules.”

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180. “Eve found a street slot – small miracle – and decided it was worth a two and a half block hike in the snow. She imagined some cheery optimist would call the wind bracing. She hated cheery optimists. She.”

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181. “When you don’t know what you can have, you do okay with what you’ve got.”

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182. “She wished she had candy, but she hadn’t settled on a new hiding place to thwart the nefarious Candy Thief.”

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183. “It was hardly a wonder that it had been her, essentially from the first minute he’d seen her. That it would be her until his last breath. And very likely well beyond that.”

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184. “It matters, Eve, that you came from monsters. Matters,” he continued, gripping her chin in his hand, “because, coming from them, you chose to make yourself into a woman who hunts the monsters. Not for vengeance, as would surely have been my choice, but for justice. I built a house. You built a hero.”

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185. “She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn’t just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn’t only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.”

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186. “Great sweater, by the way. Cashmere?” Baffled, Eve looked down at her navy turtleneck. “I don’t know. It’s blue.”

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187. “A thin snow started to spit out of grumpy gray skies. Which meant, Eve knew, that at least fifty percent of the drivers currently on the road would lose a minimum of one-third of their intelligence quotient, any skill they’d previously held at operating a vehicle thereby turning what had been the standard annoying traffic into mayhem.”

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188. “But a book? You go into it. There’s no visual or auditory other than what forms in your own mind. You visualize the characters, the scene, through the words. You, as reader, interpret the tone of voice, the colors, the movement as you physically turn the pages.”

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189. “Roarke made some notations on the fax – a.”

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190. “He could want her, every minute of every day. Was certain he would go on wanting her after he was dead and gone. She was the pulse, the reason, the breath.”

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191. “I’ve eliminated everything else. This is what’s left. And when you’ve eliminated everything else, what’s left should be true.”

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192. “She wondered why things always took longer than you wanted them to take, unless you wanted them to take a lot longer – then they didn’t take nearly long enough. Time sucked.”

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193. “You have the right to remain silent. You also have the right to put on pants before I cuff you and have you taken into Central.”

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194. “He may have gotten spanked by a barbecue grill, but on a desk unit, he was a king.”

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195. “Love, she knew – where once she hadn’t believed – could be quiet and sweet, and still hold the world.”

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196. “After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.”

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197. “Sadder and sadder,” Peabody said when they were back on the sidewalk. “I guess you don’t think of how many people you brush up against, or how they might remember you. The guy at your corner deli, or the owner of your favorite take-out spot. The clerk where you usually shop for clothes. Not to sound too Free-Agey, but it matters. It all matters, what we leave behind with the people we brush up against.”

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198. “The rage worked under her cheer. It was always there, whispering to her. But she could control it. She’d controlled it for years. Because she was smart, smarter than all of them.”

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199. “I mean, when certain beliefs and traditions survive for centuries, there’s a reason for it.” “Sure there is, human beings are, and always have been, gullible. And there are, and always have been, individuals who know how to exploit that gullibility.”

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200. “Things should make sense, and half the time they don’t. Stuff that shouldn’t make sense, half the time does.”

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