460 Quotes by J.D. Robb

Didn’t people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

Her feet were killing her. And it made her imagine traveling back in time, hunting down whoever had invented stiletto heels, and beating the crap out of him.

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

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.

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” “Why? They’re idle when you’re sleeping – does he set up shop then? Are we all supposed to stay awake using our hands so the devil doesn’t make stuff? What if you broke your hand? Is he doing his workshop thing while you’re waiting to have it fixed?

Do you remember the first time we made love?” He touched his lips to hers as he said it. “We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn’t keep our hands off each other, couldn’t get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do.” He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. “It’s never going to change.

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.

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.

Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light.