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“ It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing the scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many. ”

— Roarke


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Eve's 'Laws'

Occasionally Eve will make remarks about the way things should, or should not, be or certain things that should be 'laws'. Sometimes the observation, or rule, may have a serious bent or may be humorous in nature.

  • "There should be a law against putting someone in the ground."[1]
    • Eve hated funerals. She detested the rite human beings insisted on giving death.[2] She could think of no better description of a funeral than of a mildly inferior play.[3]
      • Eve to Roarke: "When my time comes, I don't want the preservatives and the stylist. You can just build a big fire, slide me in. Then you can throw yourself on the pyre to show your wild grief and constant devotion."[4]
      • When Eve thought to herself that she would one day be as old and irritating as Father Rodriguez, she decided she would just eat her weapon and get it over with.[5]
  • "People should be allowed – no, they should be required to chase mimes down the street with bats."[6]
  • "Webster wasn't an ex. You have to be naked with somebody for more than two hours for them to qualify as an ex. It's a law."[7]
  • "Why does it have to be an hour earlier there, or an hour later here? Why can't everybody just run on the same time and end the madness?"[8]
    • When Eve needed to call Las Vegas, she said, "It's earlier there, right, in Vegas. The stupid time zone crap actually works for me this time."[9]
  • "It should be illegal to run a food-service operation and not offer Pepsi."[10]
  • [About there being no school on Saturdays] "There ought to be. There ought to be school twenty-four/seven for little disrespectful creeps like that. Give them a day out, all they do is cause trouble."[11]
  • No kissing in front of the uniforms.[12]


Beliefs

  • Organized religion baffled her, made her vaguely uncomfortable. She'd been raised by the state, and a state education was forbidden, by law, to include even a whiff of religious training.[13]
    • There might be a God. She hadn't completely ruled such things out.[14]
    • Eve didn't care for churches much. They made her feel guilty for reasons she didn't care to explore.[15]
      • Churches always smelled like the dying or the dead to her.[16]
    • In Eve's mind, memorials were for the living left behind.[17]
  • This may be of interest or it may be something Eve thought simply because she was in a church (she may have been thinking 'in context'). The implications are unknown as Eve previously referred to God as 'she'.[18]
    • Eve refers to Jesus as God in Salvation in Death": "Eve took one more scan of the crime scene. A lot of death for one small church, she mused. One in the coffin (Hector Ortiz), one at the altar (Father Flores), and the one looking down on both from the really big cross (Jesus). One dies in his sleep after a long life, one dies fast – and the other gets spikes hammered through his hands and feet so they can hang him on a cross of wood. God, priest, and the faithful, she thought. To her way of thinking, God got the worst deal of the three."[19]
  • Eve has been studying up on Catholicism and used the word transubstantiation.[20]
  • "[Religion] gets used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people, maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them. Not like Luke Goodwin or López. They mean it. They live it. You can see it in them. Maybe that makes the bullshit harder to take. I don't know."[21]
  • Eve believes there is something more after death. "No way we go through all this crap, then that's it. If it is, I'm going to be seriously pissed off."[22]
  • In her dream, it was said that justice is Eve's faith and she has an intense, marrow-deep respect for the law.[23]


Resignation

  • In Naked in Death, after Whitney said her decision to sleep with a suspect (Roarke) was asinine and that he didn't expect this of her, Eve said, "It doesn't affect the investigation, or my ability to continue. If you think differently, you're wrong. If you pull me off, you'll have to take my badge, too."[24]
  • In Immortal in Death, Eve said that if she was taken off Mavis's case she'd take personal time and work it herself; if necessary, she'd resign.[25]


References

  1. ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 38
  2. ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 35
  3. ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 37
  4. ↑ Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 308
  5. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 30
  6. ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 135
  7. ↑ Remember When (ISBN 0-425-19547-3), p. 272
  8. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 251
  9. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 296
  10. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 223
  11. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 329
  12. ↑ Loyalty in Death (ISBN 0-425-17140-X), p. 89
  13. ↑ Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), p. 207
  14. ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 35
  15. ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 75
  16. ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 77
  17. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 187
  18. ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 77
  19. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 12
  20. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 289, 290
  21. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 200
  22. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 221
  23. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 225
  24. ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 174
  25. ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), p. 64
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