Books Quote by J.D. Robb

“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

— Hetty King

“If only every member of the family could have grown as straight and strong as Ann Garrity's beech tree. But as fate and genetics…

— peter ames carlin

“When Doris had died so long ago, it was weeks before Mary could think clearly and remember what she was supposed to do the…

— Marisa Silver

“World is full of people so troubled they don’t even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their motivations, but…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“The night following the reading, Gansey woke to a completely unfamiliar sound and fumbled for his glasses. It sounded a little like one of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“Concerning the death of Gertrude Stein: she came out of a deep coma to ask her companion Alice Toklas, 'Alice, Alice, what is the…

— Susan Sontag

“ This morning, on the avenue, my death was walking next to me, under the plane-trees. I came back home, lied on the bed.…

— Christian Bobin

“every clanging ambulance bell, in every scar on the faces of the pimps and their whores, in every helpless, newborn baby being brought into…

— James Baldwin

“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse…

— Chris Cleave

“that circular loop was fatal. Patsy giving them their Latin name, herpes zoster, describing how the pain attacked the line of the nerves, something…

— Edna O'Brien