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“Eve: "She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you?"
Roarke: "What, die?"
Eve: "Leave me all this stuff."
Roarke: "Only you would be annoyed by that.”
― J.D. Robb, Rapture in Death

“Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it."

"I think he did." Peabody flipped on her sunshades, pointed. "It's blocking the drive, see?"

"Oh, yeah." Eve cleared her throat. The car was just as she'd left it, and fluttering in the mild breeze were a few torn articles of clothing. "Don't ask," she muttered and started to hoof it down the drive.

"I wasn't going to." Peabody's voice was smooth as silk, "Speculation's more interesting.”
― J.D. Robb, Rapture in Death

“If I do, will you and the Golden Girl Commando Squad stand down?”-Jack Stratton”
― Christopher Greyson, Jack of Hearts

“Last year,” she said. “That was the most important year. We just didn’t know it.” She creased her napkin. “You never know which year will be the most important, not in advance. Only in retrospect. Only after you know what you’ve lost.”
― Grace Greene

“Gifts came in many ways and forms. Some were held close, some shared, but all were to be cherished.”
― Grace Greene, Beach Christmas

“That the ocean is. IS. It didn't think, it didn't care. It simply existed in a mindless state, performing to the laws of nature.”
― Grace Greene, Beach Three: Beach Rental / Beach Towel / Beach Winds

“People might try to hold it back—time or nature—to keep what their hearts most desired, and might even succeed for a while, but no one could stop it cold. Even a long-lived life lasted only a moment in the span of time on earth.”
― Grace Greene, Beach Wedding

“Better no one than the wrong one,”
― Grace Greene, Beach Wedding

“Often what we don't want to face, is what we need to face the most.”
― Grace Greene, Beach Wedding

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I’ve simply come to the realization that the amount of sand in the top of my hourglass is far less than the sand in the bottom.

-Jack Masterson”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“Every rumor carries a seed of truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered.”
― Liv Constantine, The First Shot

“Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See