Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death Quotes

“Marital discord, she decided, was like some sort of low-grade fever that threw the whole system just slightly out of whack so you couldn’t manage to function at full capacity.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“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.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“Because you believed in me, you pushed me, and you taught me, I’ve got it.” “That’s not entirely untrue.” Eve tipped the chair back, put the heel of one boot on the desk. “But if you hadn’t believed in yourself, pushed yourself, and learned, I wouldn’t have done you a damn bit of”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“you”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“In the real world of good and evil, good doesn’t have a party if they’ve got a reason to think evil might try to crash.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“People like murder, Peabody. They jive on it when it’s got at least one of those degrees of separation. Reading about it, watching vids about it, turning on the evening news to hear about it. As long as it isn’t too close.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“she’d been found. She described the note, her fieldwork thus far, and”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“monitors?”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there’s no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. —LORD HALIFAX”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“Marriage isn’t for the weak or the lazy. It’s work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death

“We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape. Yet we cling to life, we worship it despite its transience. Or perhaps, because of it. But all the while, we wonder of death. We build monuments to it, revere it with our rituals. What will our death be? we ask ourselves. Will it be sudden and swift, long and lingering? Will there be pain? Will it come after a long, full life, or will we be cut off—violently, inexplicably—in our prime? When is our time? For death is for all time. We create an afterlife because we cannot rush through our days chased by the specter of an end. We make gods who guide us, who will greet us at golden gates to lead us into an eternal land of milk and honey.”
― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death / Imitation in Death / Divided in Death / Visions in Death / Survivor in Death