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1 " Roarke had to force himself not to snatch her up as she swept through the hallowed Senate halls. Members of the media were already leaping toward her, but she cut through them as if they weren’t there. “I like your style, Lieutenant Dallas,” he said when they’d fought their way to the car. “I like it a lot. And by the way, I don’t think I’m in love with you anymore. I know I am. "
― J.D. Robb , Naked in Death (In Death #1)
2 " That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there. "
3 " Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion. "
4 " She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [...] She reached down [...] and chose a Galaxy bar [...] "I'm going home." "You didn't pay for that," Francois shouted after her. "Fuck you, Frank," she shouted back and kept going. "
5 " I like your style, Lieutenant Dallas," he said when they'd fought their way to the car. "I like it a lot. And by the way, I don't think I'm in love with you anymore. I know I am."-Roarke "
6 " I don't worry about traditions overmuch. The fact is, I could change my mind as to whether I want something. For one reason or another, it could lose its appeal. "
7 " I can't tell you how aroused it makes me when you quote codes, lieutenant. "
8 " I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. "
9 " Some men find the cool, disinterested, and understated attractive. Makes them think you’re deep. "
10 " You know, Roarke, you're kind of cute." Eve Dallas "
11 " I don't remember, and I don't want to remember. I've been a victim, and once you have, you need to do whatever it takes not to be one again "
12 " It stunned him how much he could want her still, baffled him that she could be blind to how helpless he was under the clawing need for her. It infuriated him that she could, simply by existing, be his weakness. ‘Hold "
13 " Alone, Roarke took the gray fabric button from his pocket, the one he’d found on the floor of his limo. The one that had fallen from the jacket of that drab gray suit she’d worn the first time he’d seen her. Studying it, knowing he had no intention of giving it back to her, he felt like a fool. "
14 " Violence is as American as cherry pie. —RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN "
15 " With Code Five, I’ll have to do the door-to-door myself. Not a simple sex crime,” she said with a sigh. “Whoever did it set it up. The antique weapon, the wounds themselves, almost ruler straight down the body, the lights, the pose. Who called it in, Feeney? "
16 " It’s a fucking pharmaceutical conspiracy, Eve. We’ve wiped out just about every known plague, disease, and infection. Oh, we come up with a new one every now and again, to give the researchers something to do. But none of these bright-eyed medical types, none of the medi-computers can figure out how to cure the common fucking cold. "
17 " If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you’re nothing. I’ve been nothing. I can’t be nothing ever again.” “Who "
18 " Just Roarke, as far as I know. Big money there. Kind of guy that touches shit and turns it into gold bricks. You’ve got to start reading more than the sports page, Dallas. "
19 " We have a Homicide, and a Code Five in number Eighteen-oh-three. "
20 " I’ve already explained "