Jess

“This, he thought, this, the unity, the adventure of it, would always delight him. Sustain him. Even when he was inside her, when the need pounded them both, the utter joy of what they’d found, what they’d made, rushed through him. She was the happiness he’d searched for all of his life.”
― J.D. Robb, Strangers in Death

“I keep thinking, well, this’ll settle down. It’s bound to level off and settle down. But it doesn’t. Even when things are just going smooth and we’re just…living, I can look at you, and I’ve got no breath left.” “Every minute with you, I’m alive. I never knew before there were pieces of me unborn, just waiting for you. I’m alive with you, Eve.”
― J.D. Robb, Strangers in Death

“More than pleasure, he thought. Somehow even more than love. At a time they each needed it most, they gave each other that essential human gift of hope.”
― J.D. Robb, Creation in Death

“He might be exasperating, complicated, dangerous, and difficult, but she loved every piece of the puzzle that made him.”
― J.D. Robb, Creation in Death