153 quotes found
Author · American · 1950
American author (born 1950)
“God is dead and I am his replacement.”
“I hate patience. Slows everything down.”
“I want to keep you, till the end of days.”
“Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other...”
“No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”
“Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it. ”
“Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back.Eve: You're not...”
“Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River.Roarke: ChattahoocheeEve: What's the dif...”
“Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.”
“She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”
“Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls.Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground.Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two...”
“You cant go back. Cant fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference. She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. From where Im stand...”
“What a woman you are, he murmured, and she heard the emotion in it, theway the Irish thickened just a bit in his voice. And saw it in those vivid eyes when he drew back. That you would think of thi...”
“You've got no sense of humor.""I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.”
“I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.”
“I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasnt an unhappy man......................The tears came now. He watched them drip down her cheeks, wo...”
“Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?""Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.”
“Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?”
“The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.”
“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 ...”
“She broke off a piece of bacon and offered it to the cat who sat staring holes through her.For him, this is makeup sex. Thats all you get, she said when Galahad inhaled the bacon then affectionatel...”
“The wifes gotta know. You cant hook up like that for what looks like about six or seven years without the wife figuring it out. Unless shes another idiot.Im not an idiot.Smiling, Roarke continued t...”
