Brotherhood in Death Quotes

“Time doesn’t heal, whatever they say. It’s how we use the time that can heal.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“He’s a fine young man, and one who loves you without restrictions. Finding a mate, a true one, is a rare and precious thing.” And the heart of the heart, she thought. Yes, he’d found that, too. “I don’t even know how it happened, but even when he pisses me off, I’m grateful every day it did.” “The best possible description for a good marriage.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“You do keep busy.” “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?” Roarke contemplated the pale gold ceiling. “Such a simple, if moralistic, phrase now thoroughly destroyed.” “I keep busy, too.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Do you always drive this way?” “What way?” “As if we’re trying to outrun an earthquake.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“She stuffed in more waffles, and thought if every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“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?”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“The statute of limitations . . . She’s put it behind her. Or I hope she has.” She’d have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Eve got her first real clue why so many women carried handbags the size of water buffalos when Mira pulled a first aid kit out of hers. “I’m”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“They were shadows in the dark, cocooned in its secrets, bathed in its silence, enspelled by each other.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“give details, professional courtesy”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“and thought if every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Summerset wasn't even where he's supposed to be so I could insult him and start the ditching."

"I was home even earlier, and told him to go out with some of his friends."

"Corpses don't have friends, they have other corpses.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Bright blessings on both of you, and safe travels wherever the path takes you.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Edward, they might know me. Some people”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Not even a stray bagel.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Finding a mate, a true one, is a rare and precious thing”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“We bloody well do.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“heal.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“I don't like the man--less now than I did before--but I can't help but admire his ... stamina."

"That's dick-thinking."

"Well ..." Roarke glanced down at his own. "It does have opinions.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“knowing him, most of them already were. He left the house in equal shares to Dennis and Edward—the two oldest grandsons. That maxibus—” Eve whipped the wheel, sent the DLE up. And took a corner as if in pursuit of a mass murderer. “Is behind us. Keep going.” “I can tell you Dennis and Edward have been at odds over the house. Dennis wants to keep it in the family, per Bradley’s wishes. Edward wants to sell it.” “He can’t sell it, I take it, unless Mr. Mira signs off.” “That’s my understanding. I don’t know why Dennis came down here today—he had a full day at the university, as one of his colleagues”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“She’d have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“not at the same time—on insomnia.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“Gwen almost as long as I can remember. When I got”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death