Then I’ll tell you the simple and most complex answer is love. It’s where you start, and where, if you work hard enough, want hard enough, you end.
The huge cat, Galahad, was draped over the back of Eve’s sleep chair like a drunk over a bar at last call. Since he’d spent several hours the night before attacking boxes, fighting with ribbon, and mu...
The frustration he felt was only with himself, for being so impossibly driven he might, at any moment, beg.
She's saying she doesn't know how to play football! Absolute shock vibrated in his voice. And she's heart-stopping serious!
Senator DeBlass is an incestuous child molester. A rapist and a murderer. And what I am, pal, is the cop who's taking him down. You'd better call a lawyer unless you want to sink with him.Roarke had t...
People who act like assholes get treated like assholes
No one ever says you’re being judgmental if you think something is right or good or healthy. Only the opposite—only if you don’t like it and only if they do like it.
Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.
Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.
Love makes you do the wacky
I’ve never understood the appeal of anything referred to as ‘hash.
I’d blow your mind with it. I’m talking hashtag-phone-gasm, right? I mean, I don’t even know what all it can do yet and I’m on it all the time. You know?
It matters, Eve, that you came from monsters. Matters, he continued, gripping her chin in his hand, because, coming from them, you chose to make yourself into a woman who hunts the monsters. Not for v...
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
He could want her, every minute of every day. Was certain he would go on wanting her after he was dead and gone. She was the pulse, the reason, the breath.
Everyone likes everybody and Pettibone is the original nice guy. Wife’s a dink, Peabody offered. The dink was still smart enough to hook a rich husband.
Creating life is the job of a higher power. It’s our job, our duty and our joy, to nurture life, protect and respect it.
By one tomorrow, I'll look enough like her to pass. I'm calling Mavis.Oh. Peabody brightened. Oh, that's iced.Easy for you to say. You won't have to listen to lectures from her and Trina on why I have...
But Roarke doesn't feel weird about it. He's full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did - do. It was easier when they didn't work, but it's better when they...
After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. These nicknames are pissing me off.But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is.It's damn name. And now I have to pee. It's...