He sipped again, more deeply. “Is this an interrogation, Lieutenant?” It was the smile in his voice that rubbed her wrong.

“It can be,” she said shortly.

“As you like.” He rose, set his glass aside, and began to unbutton his shirt.

“What are you doing?”

“Getting into the swim, so to speak.” He tossed the shirt aside, unhooked his trousers.

“If I’m going to be questioned by a naked cop, in my own tub, the least I can do is join her.”

“Damn it, Roarke, this is murder.” He winced as the hot water all but scalded him.

“You’re telling me.” He faced her across the sea of froth.

“What is it in me that is so perverse it thrives on ruffling you? And,” he continued before she could give him her short, pithy opinion, “what is it about you that pulls at me, even when you’re sitting there with an invisible badge pinned to your lovely breast?


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He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to ...
J.D. SALINGER
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay a...
J.D. SALINGER
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect ha...
J.D. STROUBE
...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even so...
J.D. VANCE
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J.D. SALINGER
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really ...
J.D. SALINGER
when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.
J.D. SALINGER
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
J.D. SALINGER
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J.D. SALINGER
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J.D. SALINGER
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J.D. SALINGER
I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even kn...
J.D. SALINGER
I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
J.D. SALINGER
Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
J.D. SALINGER
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER
Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the e...
J.D. STROUBE
All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can�...
J.D. STROUBE
Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues...
J.D. STROUBE
But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
J.D. SALINGER
Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse ...
J.D. JORDAN
My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing...
J.D. STROUBE
I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.
J.D. SALINGER
I thought so hard I got a headache.
J.D. COBB
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
J.D. SALINGER
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J.D. SALINGER
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enoug...
J.D. SALINGER
Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
J.D. SALINGER
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And...
J.D. SALINGER
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of thos...
J.D. SALINGER
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants ...
J.D. SALINGER
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER
I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless t...
J.D. SALINGER
She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies ...
J.D. SALINGER
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to ha...
J.D. SALINGER
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, hol...
J.D. SALINGER
You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn ar...
J.D. SALINGER
Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever...
J.D. SALINGER
Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER
Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm no...
J.D. SALINGER
My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minu...
J.D. SALINGER
Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
J.D. SALINGER
People never notice anything.
J.D. SALINGER
It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. SALINGER
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J.D. SALINGER
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sink...
J.D. GREEAR
It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER
Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J.D. SALINGER
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
J.D. SALINGER
The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
J.D. SALINGER
I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
J.D. SALINGER
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J.D. SALINGER
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. SALINGER
Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of...
J.D. VANCE
Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ...
J.D. VANCE
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J.D. SALINGER
After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because bein...
J.D. BREWER
The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we coul...
J.D. GREEAR
I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER
I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER
Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER
People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER
Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and...
J.D. SALINGER
D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know w...
J.D. SALINGER
That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER
I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometime...
J.D. SALINGER
I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...
J.D. SALINGER
As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...
J.D. SALINGER
Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
J.D. SALINGER