Fantasy in Death Quotes

“Do you think the penis ever gets tired?"

Whose?

Anybody's. I mean anybody with one. Does the penis ever just think: for God's sake pal, give it a rest? Or is it all: Woo-who!! Here we go again!”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Hotter than a fuck in hell.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Officer down. Officer down."

"I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Maybe they're out doing the tango and drinking tequila shots." He sent Eve a grin. "As we will be when we reach their age. After which we'll come home and have mad sex."

"For God's sake. This is on the record."

"Yes, I know." He stepped off with her on Var's floor. "I wanted those future plans to be official as well.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Try to look like Peabody."

"Sorry?"

"Serious, official, yet approachable."

"You forgot adorable."

"Peabody is not adorable."

"She is from my perspective. Besides, I was talking about me.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“No one’s indispensable. Except you to me.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“I know love, and what it does to you, for you. I know that it can bloom out of friendship, or that friendship can open out of love. Both are precious. And when you have both, there’s little that can’t be done.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn’t ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“She wondered why two people who loved each other to the point of stupid managed to aggravate each other as often as they seemed to.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?”

“Poets,” Eve decided. “You have to think they must.”

“Okay, other than poets.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“People often do the incomprehensible. It’s what makes them so fascinating.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to him like this? In absolute trust. Her strength, her valor remained a constant wonder to him, as did her unrelenting determination to defend those who could no longer defend themselves. These moments, when she allowed her vulnerabilities, her doubts, her fears to tremble to the surface compelled him to take care. In these moments he could show her it wasn’t just the warrior he loved, he treasured, but the woman, the whole of her. The dark and the light.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“It’s Nerd World,” Peabody said. “Or Geek Galaxy. I can’t decide which because it’s full of nerds and geeks.” “It’s Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Christ Jesus Eve. The girl's shattered like glass, and it'll take a blood miracle to put her together again. And you're standing here talking about fucking games?"
She met fire with ice. "Obviously your heartstrings are playing a tune."
"It might be because I have them," he shot back. "Because I'm not so caught up trying to win some shagging game that I consider a young woman a logical choice. She's still alive, Lieutenant. She's not on your side of the board yet."
"Why don't you go back to the waiting area. You can all join hands. Maybe hold a prayer meeting. You go ahead and do that while the one who put her in the OR is chuckling up his sleeve. I've got better things to do."
She strode away, steeling both her heart and belly against the hurt. It wasn't just the body she thought that could shatter. And it wasn't only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“His in-house intercom greeted him with a cheery 'Welcome home, Bart,' and his server droid - custom-made to replicate Princess Leia, classic 'Star Wars,' slave-girl mode (he was a nerd, but he was still a guy) - strolled out to offer him his favorite orange fizzy with crushed ice.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“I’ve eliminated everything else. This is what’s left. And when you’ve eliminated everything else, what’s left should be true.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn’t just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn’t only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“When someone believes they’re smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they’re very, very dangerous.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“One might be a coincidence.” Hands on her hips, she turned back. “Put them together it’s a pattern.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“That was another thing about partners, she decided. They knew what would make you laugh, often before you did.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Winning can be addictive,” Mira agreed. “So can murder.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“When you don’t know what you can have, you do okay with what you’ve got.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“It’s a mistake to be too much one of your own as they’ll never see you as fully in charge.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“You’ve played the games. You’re a competitive soul.” “What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“It may be you confused undercover with undercovered.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“but not so much as to exclude those relationships and friendships.”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“Batman, kid. Even you've heard of Batman.”

“Yeah, yeah, vigilante with psychotic tendencies who dresses up in a weird bat costume. Rich playboy by day, right?”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“also”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death