Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?.

I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death.

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive..

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off..

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll ha….

I need to write to be happy..

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in ….

He handed her her cap and sunglasses, then put on his own while she frowned at them. “What is this?” “A disguise.” He grinned at her. “Dobie wants yo….

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everyt….

You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying..

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive..

It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be….

Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more ….

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play..

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..

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do….

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes..

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversati….

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer..

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities..

Love makes saints or sinners out of men..