460 Quotes by J.D. Robb

Nature, nurture, both matter, both form us. But at some point, at so many points, the choices we make, the paths we take, they define us.

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

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

It’s here, inside me, and it’ll bite off pieces when it can. But I can take it because you’re there. Because you know how it feels. You’re the only one who really knows. And becasue you love me enough to feel it. When you look at me, and I see that, I can take anything.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you tell me I’m sensible in addition to normal and wise, I’m going to punch you in the stomach.