Then you can investigate me over dinner. He took her arm, lifting a brow as she stiffened. I'd think a woman who'd fight for a candy bar would appreciate a two-inch fillet, medium rare.Steak? She stru...
Sometimes a well-placed lie saved friendships, and sanity.
Side, party got out of hand. Guy shot five people with a
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Money
People who at like assholes get treated like assholes.
Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what i...
Music isn’t just a bunch of notes strung together, sweetheart. It’s life. It’s memory. Songs trigger specific and often predictable emotional reactions. Music’s an expression of emotion, desires.
Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.
It's here, inside me, and it'll bite off pieces when it can. But I can take it because you're there. Because you know how it feels. You're the only one who really knows. And becasue you love me enough...
It was ugly and awful that I said it. That I could say it. I wish I hadn’t. Oh Jesus, Roarke, I wish I hadn’t said it.We’ve both said things at one time or another we wish we hadn’t. We can put that a...
It was orbital, it was mag, it was beyond the ult.
If there wasn’t coffee, the entire world would shuffle around like zombies.
I crossed the line. The line shifts. Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?
I couldn’t have. I don’t know what happened.’ ‘Tell me what you do know.
How does hanky-panky translate to sex? Who comes up with words like that? Probably people who don't have sex
He turned her into his arms as they stepped into the studio, ran his hands over her hips. I missed you. I miss spending large quantities of time with you.She felt the heat kindle between her thighs, h...
Get rich quick is usually a scam and always for suckers.
Forget it. She shifted away, drained her cup, set it aside.I won’t forget it; neither will you. He took her hand, lifted it to his lips. Nothing could have pleased him more than the quick suspicion on...
Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what’s the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That’s it.
Eve: If you ended up naked and dead with another woman, I'd do the Rumba on your corpse.Roarke: You can't do the Rumba.Eve: I'd take lessons first.Roarke: You might very well. Not that you'll ever get...