You're no better. Playing dress-up like you know right from wrong. Who made you the fucking hero?

I did.


J.D. Cunegan

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I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a whil...
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or s...
J.D. SALINGER
He moved like a bird; twitching and bunching his shoulders. His head angled back and forth to watch ...
J.D. STROUBE
This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.
J.D. SALINGER
My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting w...
J.D. STROUBE
The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.
J.D. SALINGER
I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�...
J.D. ROBB
He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se...
J.D. SALINGER
As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. BREWER
Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment ...
J.D. MEANS
No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have ...
J.D. STROUBE
Roarke: "I'll drop you."

Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy...
J.D. ROBB
Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
J.D. SALINGER
John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
J.D. SALINGER
It is back to basics here,’ Jason said. ‘What women seek to find in a man is dictated by evoluti...
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