460 Quotes by J.D. Robb

Idols always fall, Eve.

I know you love me, but I don’t know why. I look at you and I just can’t get why it’s me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn’t be me, and I think it’d kill me if you ever figured that out.

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.

Real love’s beautiful, elusive, and mean as a snake.

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.

A lot of the general population are wrong.

Listen carefully. I’d crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.

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.

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.