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, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

“Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?"
"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.”

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

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.

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

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Wally Lamb

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

With destruction comes renovation.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

J. A. Jance

A writer is someone who has written something today.

I've long maintained that women are born knowing things it takes men a whole lifetime to figure out. This was simply one more case in point.

That’s what friends are for,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re old friends or new friends. They’re the kind of people who will listen as long as you need them to because, sometimes, telling the story and having someone listen is the only way to figure out how to move on.

Distance is to love as wind is to fire. Blows out the little ones and fans the big ones.

Taken out of context and given a forty-degree twist, you can use the Bible to justify almost anything.

There’s nothing like a compliment to turn any right-thinking American male into your basic monosyllabic kind of guy.

Janet Evanovich

Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head.

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

I hate mornings. They start so early.

I like the way you've let your hair go curly," he finally said. "Suits your personality. Lots of energy, not much control, sexy as hell.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing.

Lisa Gardner

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love?

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better

Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.

Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

Charlie N. Holmberg

Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something.

Everyone has a dark side! But it’s their choice whether or not they cultivate it.

But she still had time. Surely she still had time. Stories like this one weren’t meant to end badly.

You’re a candle that won’t be snuffed, and now the darkest parts of this world can see you. And they don’t tolerate the light.

I don’t know how many women can claim to have walked a man’s heart, but I’ve walked yours.

If you’re going to get yourself killed, you could at least kiss me first!

When one believes in oneself, even the extraordinary is possible.

Perhaps in a heart, knowledge was more stable than memory or thought.”

One can never be too irrational.

William Ritter

That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are.

I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally wrong.

This world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a few fish.So often,” Jackaby said, “people think that when we arrive at a crossroads, we can choose only one path, but—as I have often and articulately postulated—people are stupid. We’re not walking the path. We are the path. We are all of the roads and all of the intersections. Of course you can choose both.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

I wondered which was sadder, leaving someone to cry after you were gone, or not having anyone who would miss you in the first place.

Ben MacIntyre

The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.

Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.

What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?

The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.

War is too messy to produce easy heroes and villains; there are always brave people on the wrong side, and evil men among the victors, and a mass of perfectly ordinary people struggling to survive and understand in between. Away from the battlefields, war forces individuals to make impossible choices in circumstances they did not create, and could never have expected. Most accommodate, some collaborate, and a very few find an internal compass they never knew they had, pointing to the right path.

Martina Cole

People only know what you tell them. And it was true. People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought. Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story. It was as if they were trying to prove they existed.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves, offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say. People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound, worry it and keep at it.  And the pain would be much more intense. It was the psychological angle and all. Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm.

Marina Keegan

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it's too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.