Eve Dallas Quotes

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 quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do. He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. It's never going to change.

~ J.d. Robb

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 this. That you would do this.”He shook his head, kissed her. Like the breath, long and quiet.“I can’t thank you enough. There isn’t enough thanks. I can’t say what this means to me, even to you. I don’t have the words for it.” He took her hands,. You stagger me.”He framed her face now, touched his lips to her brow. “You’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.

~ J.d. Robb

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?Perfect timing.

~ J.d. Robb

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day.I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

~ J.d. Robb

I'm going to see if Morris has a spare spine lying around you can borrow if you're scared to speak to that high-heeled, smug-ass bitch, Peabody.

~ J.d. Robb

You're almost as good as Peabody.He stopped at the door, grabbed her up in a steaming kiss. You can't get that from Peabody.I could if I wanted. But it made her grin as he uncoded the locks. But I like you better for sex.

~ J.d. Robb

I wasn't going to have dessert, but it was right there, all gooey and sweet. It's like sex. I mean, when it's right there, what are you supposed to do? I wasn't going to have that either--sex--with my parents bunking in the office, but, well, it was right there.I'll tolerate the gooey and sweet, Peabody, but I'm not thinking about you having sex with McNab, especially in the same sentence as 'my parents.'I think they had sex, too.Eve struggled not to wince or twitch. Do you want me to kick you down four flights of steps and make you walk up again?I'd probably bounce all the way down, too, with all this gooey and sweet in my butt. So I guess not.Good choice.

~ J.d. Robb

Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.

~ J.d. Robb

He stepped to her again, laid his lips on her brow. But I want children with you, my lovely Eve. One day.One day being far, far in the future. Like, I don't know, say a decade when...Hold on. Children is plural.He eased back, grinned. Why, so it is--nothing slips by my canny cop.You really think if I ever actually let you plant something in me--they're like aliens in there, growing little hands and feet. She shuddered. Creepy. If I ever did that, popped a kid out--which I think is probably as pleasant a process as having your eyeballs pierced by burning, poisonous sticks, I'd say, 'Whoopee, let's do this again?' Have you recently suffered head trauma?Not to my knowledge.Could be coming. Any second.

~ J.d. Robb

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

~ J.d. Robb

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before Igave him ID.”“It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick,sad world.

~ J.d. Robb

Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this? Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth.I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it.

~ J.d. Robb

I got you a present.Did you?It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

~ J.d. Robb

Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?She bit his good shoulder. You're about to find out.She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.

~ J.d. Robb

Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.

~ J.d. Robb