Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!