You're no better. Playing dress-up like you know right from wrong. Who made you the fucking hero?
I did.
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J.D. GALLAGHER As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued ...
J.D. ROBB I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
J.D. SALINGER What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's com...
J.D. GREEAR We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could ...
J.D. ROBB Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic.
J.D. SALINGER Death is deceitful, pretending that peace is on the horizon. The truth is that chaos is left in its ...
J.D. STROUBE When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
J.D. SALINGER I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing righ...
J.D. JORDAN Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would f...
J.D. STROUBE I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.
J.D. STROUBE Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness wi...
J.D. STROUBE I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ...
J.D. SALINGER It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way...
J.D. GREEAR My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God...
J.D. GREEAR We'd seen it a million times before, since girls on the Tracks rarely knew of loyalty. She'd be gone...
J.D. BREWER But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.
J.D. SALINGER ...Mom equated money with affection...but I never cared about the money. I just wanted her to be hea...
J.D. VANCE He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...
J.D. SALINGER What I couldn’t bring myself to hate was the energy. I reveled in the way it ebbed and flowed as p...
J.D. BREWER These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...
J.D. SALINGER If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the w...
J.D. SALINGER It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt l...
J.D. SALINGER Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J.D. SALINGER The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'...
J.D. SALINGER People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J.D. SALINGER People are always ruining things for you.
J.D. SALINGER When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to ...
J.D. SALINGER I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
J.D. SALINGER is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom wh...
J.D. SALINGER The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than th...
J.D. SALINGER That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it whe...
J.D. SALINGER It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns...
J.D. SALINGER the sentence im reading is terrific ...
J.D. SALINGER I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam...
J.D. SALINGER You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were ha...
J.D. SALINGER Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi...
J.D. SALINGER What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I proba...
J.D. SALINGER That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and ...
J.D. SALINGER I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
J.D. SALINGER Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if th...
J.D. SALINGER Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure."
She slid a glance toward hi...
J.D. ROBB I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. The...
J.D. STROUBE We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action...
J.D. BERNAL It's always a pleasure watching you wake up," he commented. "But sometimes I wonder if you want me o...
J.D. ROBB Roarke, one thing." She walked to him, well aware he was all but snarling with temper. "I haven't ki...
J.D. ROBB She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.
J.D. ROBB By five A.M., her eyes were gritty and her head ached. The single hour’s sleep she had managed to ...
J.D. ROBB Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency...
J.D. ROBB In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
J.D. ROBB For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and...
J.D. ROBB Water lapped as she sat forward. “Don’t play games with me, Roarke.”
“Eve, it’...
J.D. ROBB He came back, sat on the ledge again, and handed her a glass. “You haven’t slept; you haven’t ...
J.D. ROBB Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke’s hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. H...
J.D. ROBB As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depict...
J.D. ROBB