Devoted in Death Quotes

“Cold as a bitch’s tit.” “It’s ‘witch’s.’” “Why? Doesn’t matter,” Eve said quickly. “Neither way makes sense. If somebody’s a witch, why do they put up with cold tits? I’m a bitch, and twenty-four hours ago, my tits were plenty warm.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“A thin snow started to spit out of grumpy gray skies. Which meant, Eve knew, that at least fifty percent of the drivers currently on the road would lose a minimum of one-third of their intelligence quotient, any skill they’d previously held at operating a vehicle thereby turning what had been the standard annoying traffic into mayhem.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“She started to open the door, looked back at him. “Whatever came before, whatever comes after, I know what love is because of you.”
He took her free hand. “Whatever came before, whatever comes after, it’s you who’ve shown me love changes everything. Lifts everything. Gives everything.”
“We’re going to have dinner tonight, just the two of us. No cops but me, no work. Like a date, okay?”
“Want a date, do you?”
It surprised her more than him. “I really do.”
“Then it’s more than okay.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“I wouldn't change a moment of the time, good or bad, we've had together since I first turned and locked eyes on you. What a jolt that was through me. I've never recovered.
- Roarke”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Traffic was a bitch, but, then again, Eve thought, so was she.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Whatever came before, whatever comes after, I know what love is because of you.” He took her free hand. “Whatever came before, whatever comes after, it’s you who’ve shown me love changes everything. Lifts everything. Gives everything.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Love, she knew—where once she hadn’t believed—could be quiet and sweet, and still hold the world.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“He wore command as he wore his suit—a good fit with clean lines.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“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. Slow,” he told her, “with awareness. Breathe out to empty. And pause, hold in that space between. Now in to fill.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“One look,”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“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.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“cowboy bar in Dry Creek, a place many who lived there considered”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“He glided”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“addiction.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that’s exactly what she got.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Try to kiss me, Detective, you won't wake up for a week.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Or the ploy Dahmer used—that classic had proven to do the job in all the decades following. Lone woman struggling to lift something heavy into the back of a vehicle. Can”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Erotica so he’d last longer.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“Guilt’s oozing out of the son—name’s Jimbo, and I’m sorry about that. And Bubba’s getting sweaty.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death

“She stepped inside, into warmth and white marble veined with gray, into the strangely spicy scent of whatever the masses of bold flowers cast off from their silver urn on the central table.”
― J.D. Robb, Devoted in Death