You’ve got no sense of humor.””I’m going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.
Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?””Sometimes, when it’s very quiet and no one else can see.
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.
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 difference?Roarke: Quite a bit, I’d think.
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.
You can’t go back. Can’t 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 I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took.
I said, you’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
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.
You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls.””It’s not a fashion accessory.
There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.
If you tell me I’m sensible in addition to normal and wise, I’m going to punch you in the stomach.
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.
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.
Peabody pursed her lips. “You’re really mean today.” “Yes. Yes, I am.” Eve took a deep gulp of hideous air, and smiled. “I feel good about that.
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: “Keep your mind off sex”Roake: “Why? It’s so happy there.
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.
Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.
That’s science fiction shit,” “It’s only fiction until science catches up.
Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)
Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?”“Poets,” Eve decided. “You have to think they must.”“Okay, other than poets.
Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.
You have to trust or you’re only living half a life.
And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinach, do you get healthy thoughts? If it’s ice cream and candy, it is fun thoughts? Why do we say stupid things?
Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.””A note.” Now Renquist’s eyebrows lifted. “Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn’t it?
Three weeks hadn’t changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.
An eye for an eye.”“That’s a revenge thing, right? From some play.”“The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.
And that, she thought as he left her, summed up the miracle of her life. She had a home with him, and he’d be there.
What other thing, Eve?””I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.
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.
She didn’t want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.
Eve: “She completely eye-fucked you.” Roarke: “I know. I feel so cheap and used.” Eve: “Shit. You got off on it. Men always do.” Roarke: “True enough, which is why we’re so often cheap and used.
Eve: “Where’s Mister Scary?”Roarke: “Summerset has the night off.”Eve: “You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.
What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.
[First line]“The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion…
She’d gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character.
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
In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
Well…yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)Show what (Dallas)You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you’re dead. (Peabody)
…but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)
Pull yourself together, Detective. You’re embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you’re embarrassing me.””They’re going to do it outside. In public.””So the fuck what?””Public,” Peabody said, head still between her
She doesn’t like you, McNab.“I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.