Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
J.D. ROBB Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in...
J.D. ROBB There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because w...
J.D. ROBB You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashio...
J.D. ROBB Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hand...
J.D. ROBB ... If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.
J.D. ROBB Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.
J.D. ROBB Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls.

Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm ...
J.D. ROBB She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
J.D. ROBB Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.

Eve: ...
J.D. ROBB Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?

Roarke: You'...
J.D. ROBB Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it...
J.D. ROBB 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,...
J.D. ROBB When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place...
J.D. ROBB You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest.
J.D. ROBB I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�...
J.D. ROBB Roarke: "I'll drop you."

Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy...
J.D. ROBB As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued ...
J.D. ROBB We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could ...
J.D. ROBB Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure."

She slid a glance toward hi...
J.D. ROBB It's always a pleasure watching you wake up," he commented. "But sometimes I wonder if you want me o...
J.D. ROBB Roarke, one thing." She walked to him, well aware he was all but snarling with temper. "I haven't ki...
J.D. ROBB She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.
J.D. ROBB By five A.M., her eyes were gritty and her head ached. The single hour’s sleep she had managed to ...
J.D. ROBB Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency...
J.D. ROBB In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
J.D. ROBB For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and...
J.D. ROBB Water lapped as she sat forward. “Don’t play games with me, Roarke.”

“Eve, it’...
J.D. ROBB He came back, sat on the ledge again, and handed her a glass. “You haven’t slept; you haven’t ...
J.D. ROBB Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke’s hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. H...
J.D. ROBB As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depict...
J.D. ROBB Was it ever . . .” She winced, wished she could muffle the need to ask. “Before, with anyone els...
J.D. ROBB So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ...
J.D. ROBB He sipped again, more deeply. “Is this an interrogation, Lieutenant?” It was the smile in his vo...
J.D. ROBB Roarke, I'm working on it."
"On what?"
"On accepting what you seem to feel for me."
H...
J.D. ROBB No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ...
J.D. ROBB She started to pull at the chain, but he closed his hands over hers. “It doesn’t go with my suit...
J.D. ROBB At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having...
J.D. ROBB Tell him I took the cat
J.D. ROBB My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. 'Boy', he would say to me in the thick brog...
J.D. ROBB She drew in a shuddering breath. “I love you.” And let it out. “God.” The emotion that swept...
J.D. ROBB You need a medic, Lieutenant.”
“In a minute. Let me ask you something.”
“Ask away....
J.D. ROBB She chuckled, leaned on him as they headed out of the park. “All in all, it was a hell of a party....
J.D. ROBB I’m not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more ...
J.D. ROBB Now he felt temper snapping at the nerves. “If you can’t be comfortable in the house while I’m...
J.D. ROBB Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, ...
J.D. ROBB I love you, Eve.” She looked away from the sun, the ocean, and into his eyes. And it was wonderful...
J.D. ROBB Fuck him."

Feeney made a sound like a man who'd been pinched. "Christ Jesus, Dallas, you'...
J.D. ROBB Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?
J.D. ROBB You have to trust or you're only living half a life.
J.D. ROBB Today," she told it, "death comes to all your circuits. Will it be slow and systematic or fast and b...
J.D. ROBB You’re Eve Dallas. You’re the love of my life. My heart and soul. You’re a cop, mind and bone....
J.D. ROBB Summerset, don't you ever sleep?"

"It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--"

Roarke dro...
J.D. ROBB I feel so used. I find I like it.
J.D. ROBB Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice."...
J.D. ROBB Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No ma...
J.D. ROBB Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times?
If you can count them, he didn't drop you ou...
J.D. ROBB When you find nothing, Morris said, it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.
I...
J.D. ROBB Life is full of circles
J.D. ROBB Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up...
J.D. ROBB I got you a present."

"Did you?"

"It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thou...
J.D. ROBB Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it."

"I think he did." Peabo...
J.D. ROBB The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.
J.D. ROBB You’re all right, Blue Eyes.” She lifted her head to look into them. “You’re all right, down...
J.D. ROBB Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to...
J.D. ROBB Would you be shedding tears for McNab’s dead body if he’d been screwing around on you?”
<...
J.D. ROBB Love meant different things to different people.
J.D. ROBB He stepped to her again, laid his lips on her brow. "But I want children with you, my lovely Eve. On...
J.D. ROBB Please, Eve, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation.”

“Kee...
J.D. ROBB You’re arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law.”

He lifted one ...
J.D. ROBB The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I
gave him ID...
J.D. ROBB Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.
ANNASOPHIA ROBB When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you ...
ANNASOPHIA ROBB I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.
ROBB WALSH It's kind of cool working together for the benefit of Weld County tennis. The tennis was good, and i...
ROBB AUDETTE Matt, being the older of the two, has found himself in a leadership position on our team and he's ta...
ROBB AUDETTE We knew that he'd have some tough competition last week. But the tennis he played was beneficial. He...
ROBB AUDETTE He has come a long way. For him to skip No. 1 doubles and win this tournament the way he came back t...
ROBB AUDETTE They played at No. 4 doubles last year and played well together. The good thing is we'll get them bo...
ROBB AUDETTE Kyle challenged for No. 3 singles, but when he didn't get it we talked about how well he and Matt pl...
ROBB AUDETTE He has played a lot of tennis and seen a lot of different styles in his life. What's nice is he is a...
ROBB AUDETTE He's been our leader all year. He was voted player of the year in our division by the other coaches ...
ROBB AUDETTE She was a giving kind of person. You can't say enough about her. She cared about everybody.
ROBB AKEY We are as excited as we can be for Adam. To be the first player selected is an outstanding achieveme...
ROBB AKEY He has done that his whole career. That has been his M.O. I thought we had a couple of opportunities...
ROBB AKEY In some areas I think that has helped us. (But) if you're going to steal from one part to help anoth...
ROBB AKEY The majority of (the time), things are pretty right. And then there's a play made. It's polishing, m...
ROBB AKEY I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a mar...
CHUCK ROBB There were very tough decisions, and it was heartbreaking at times. Sometimes a great organization w...
ROBB HANKINS Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it th...
ROBB SAGENDORPH Within an hour, he got my wife's consent to amputate both of my feet.
ROBB KIMBROUGH It's still cool at night. There might be a cluster of activity when the conditions are just right.
BILL ROBB Folks, I hope you understand how dangerous an (alligator) like this is when he is out of his element...
BILL ROBB At one point, they told my wife and daughters to come in and say goodbye to me because I wasn't goin...
ROBB KIMBROUGH I always feel like with every CD we put out, we have to start back at square one. We feel like we al...
DOUG ROBB That song went in as a standard rock song, and it turned into a song that sounds like it's something...
DOUG ROBB Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly lai...
DOUG ROBB [And the company is not done growing.] We are relatively adolescent, ... We have a lot of growth ahe...
WALTER ROBB When I'm at home or at school, I'm casual and comfortable. I tend to wear work out clothes a...
ANNASOPHIA ROBB We just play it by ear by each situation.
GARY ROBB Our clients believe justice was served. They hope now to move on with their lives.
GARY ROBB People still need to use good judgement. The river is still pretty treacherous out there.
GARY ROBB Basically, the high water has been just a nuisance. We pretty much dodged a bullet.
GARY ROBB We're supposed to get some pretty heavy rain and that could cause a considerable flood situation for...
GARY ROBB Even a small shortfall in the export market can become a price-driving factor.
JAMES ROBB We've built up cold storage in the dark meat, simultaneously we've got increased broiler production.
JAMES ROBB We have quite a bit more dark meat inventory in cold storage than a year ago.
JAMES ROBB Business has just been wonderful. We did a soft opening, but people were watching and knew when we o...
LANA ROBB People just took to us in Bellevue.
LANA ROBB It's just looking at demographics. It's definitely a place to be. There are so many businesses there...
LANA ROBB It wasn't making any money. It was a great place to cater out of. Our customers were absolutely wond...
LANA ROBB I was hurt, but that doesn't account for the first part of the season when I wasn't playing that goo...
ROBB QUINLAN Kent was the leader of the team. But Boz really stepped up this year. He's definitely become the lea...
ROBB FRANCIS It's like a traveling circus. We load up the trucks and move them all over town.
ROBB CULLEN I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a...
J.D. SALINGER I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
J.D. SALINGER What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that ...
J.D. SALINGER This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling ...
J.D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to b...
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. T...
J.D. SALINGER It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadca...
J.D. STROUBE You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J.D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J.D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
J.D. SALINGER That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look ...
J.D. SALINGER If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivio...
J.D. STROUBE I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to ...
J.D. SALINGER I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay a...
J.D. SALINGER A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect ha...
J.D. STROUBE ...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even so...
J.D. VANCE All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J.D. SALINGER I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really ...
J.D. SALINGER when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.
J.D. SALINGER The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
J.D. SALINGER Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J.D. SALINGER Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J.D. SALINGER I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J.D. SALINGER I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even kn...
J.D. SALINGER I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
J.D. SALINGER Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
J.D. SALINGER who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the e...
J.D. STROUBE All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can�...
J.D. STROUBE Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues...
J.D. STROUBE But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
J.D. SALINGER Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse ...
J.D. JORDAN My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing...
J.D. STROUBE I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.
J.D. SALINGER I thought so hard I got a headache.
J.D. COBB And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
J.D. SALINGER She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J.D. SALINGER Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enoug...
J.D. SALINGER Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
J.D. SALINGER If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And...
J.D. SALINGER I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of thos...
J.D. SALINGER I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants ...
J.D. SALINGER The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless t...
J.D. SALINGER She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies ...
J.D. SALINGER I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to ha...
J.D. SALINGER She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, hol...
J.D. SALINGER You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn ar...
J.D. SALINGER Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever...
J.D. SALINGER Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm no...
J.D. SALINGER My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minu...
J.D. SALINGER Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
J.D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J.D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J.D. SALINGER Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sink...
J.D. GREEAR It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J.D. SALINGER I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
J.D. SALINGER The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
J.D. SALINGER I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
J.D. SALINGER I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J.D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. SALINGER Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of...
J.D. VANCE Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ...
J.D. VANCE An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J.D. SALINGER After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because bein...
J.D. BREWER The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we coul...
J.D. GREEAR I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and...
J.D. SALINGER D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know w...
J.D. SALINGER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometime...
J.D. SALINGER I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...
J.D. SALINGER As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...
J.D. SALINGER Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
J.D. SALINGER