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She wanted me to love her... and stranger still, i wanted to love and be loved by her. Death had become romantic again.


J.D. Clair

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J.D. GREEAR 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 It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place...
J.D. ROBB These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and ...
J.D. STROUBE You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest.
J.D. ROBB I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J.D. SALINGER There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that ...
J.D. STROUBE I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screa...
J.D. STROUBE Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I cou...
J.D. STROUBE Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, som...
J.D. SALINGER I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a whil...
J.D. SALINGER And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or s...
J.D. SALINGER He moved like a bird; twitching and bunching his shoulders. His head angled back and forth to watch ...
J.D. STROUBE This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.
J.D. SALINGER My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting w...
J.D. STROUBE The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.
J.D. SALINGER I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�...
J.D. ROBB He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se...
J.D. SALINGER As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. BREWER Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment ...
J.D. MEANS No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have ...
J.D. STROUBE Roarke: "I'll drop you."

Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy...
J.D. ROBB Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
J.D. SALINGER John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
J.D. SALINGER It is back to basics here,’ Jason said. ‘What women seek to find in a man is dictated by evoluti...
J.D. GALLAGHER As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued ...
J.D. ROBB I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
J.D. SALINGER What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's com...
J.D. GREEAR We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could ...
J.D. ROBB Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic.
J.D. SALINGER Death is deceitful, pretending that peace is on the horizon. The truth is that chaos is left in its ...
J.D. STROUBE When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
J.D. SALINGER I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing righ...
J.D. JORDAN Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would f...
J.D. STROUBE I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.
J.D. STROUBE Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness wi...
J.D. STROUBE I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ...
J.D. SALINGER