Robert B. Parker Quotes
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Vinnie and Hawk lounged in the theater lobby, blending in to the theatrical scene like two coyotes at a poultry festival.
I took a sip. It went surprisingly well with the veal. On the other hand, the fourth margarita goes surprisingly well with everything.
She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not be dignified.
There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.
Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley
I was struggling happily with my ribs. Normally I ended up with barbecue sauce in my socks when I ate ribs, but I always figured they were worth it.
I read someplace that wanting to know everything about a person is wanting to possess them." "I believe that is probably true," Susan said.
The point is not to get hung up on being what you're supposed to be. If you can, it's good to do what pleases you.
Then why don't you get married?" "I'm not sure. Mostly it's a question of how we'd affect each other, I suppose. Would
You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not the movies. You're in a crisis situation, you got about a half second to do what needs to be done. Your
In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.
people trying to look like Eurotrash were sitting outside having various kinds of fancy coffee and looking at each other.
Mary Lou Buckman and I sat in the first booth, and I, mindful of Wild Bill Hickok, sat facing the door.
I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.
Dewar's and water," I said. "Yes. I don't care really, but everyone at work says if you don't order by name they give you bar whiskey.
The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and
I was doing curls. Hawk said, "How you and Susan doing?" "Love is lovelier," I said, "the second time around." "Worth the scramble," Hawk said.
I was in my office tilted back in my chair with my feet up drinking a cup of coffee and eating my second corn muffin
Christmas dinner? At Susan's?" I nodded. "We could call it a Kwanzaa dinner, if that would improve your mood.
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.
It was that juxtaposition of how it used to be with how it had turned out that made L.A. so interesting and so sad a place, I thought.
I headed straight into the setting sun, and rode west at an easy pace. It was going to be a long ride, and there was no reason to hurry.
We're fifteen," he said. "And we found each other already? Is that possible? Can you find somebody at fifteen?
drank more scotch. "Probably he wasn't alone," I said. "Probably not," Hawk murmured. "So," I said. "How you want to handle this?
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.
Perhaps the one absolute essential to growing up well is being tough enough," Susan said. "Like us," I said.
Susan came down the hall in a white dress that fit her well. She looked like she was receiving an Academy Award for stunningness. I
Anger doesn't have to be expressed. It is enough to know that you're angry, and know why, and not lie to yourself about it.
When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.
And rich older husbands," I said. "And perhaps some evidence of promiscuity," Susan said. "I mean, every young wife doesn't cheat on her husband. Why
The medieval courtly love tradition holds that love is impossible in marriage because it is coerced, I said.
I heard somebody define heaven once," she said, looking at Pearl, "as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you.
tape on and the car trembled with percussion all the way to Saugus, where Hawk pulled into a Martignetti's off Route 1 and bought three
There is excitement in a new kiss, but there is a quality of memory and intimacy in kissing someone you've kissed often before. I
I wonder why I'm so uneasy naked," she said. "Maybe it's the gimlet-eyed lechery of my gaze," I said. "Probably," she said.
One of the things that made Susan so interesting was the fact that she looked like a Jewish princess and worked like a Bulgarian peasant.
Tony's patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. "Sho 'nuff," he said.
He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal on my nose.
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
To be looked at by Susan, naked, with those eyes, over a glass of pink champagne, was all I knew on earth, and all I had to know.
I could feel the tension radiate from my solar plexus and jangle along the nerve circuitry. It had nothing to do with the weather.
Quirk was still staring out the window. "I'm trying to keep hold of this thing," he said. "The guy isn't going to stop and
Rita didn't mind. I knew she wouldn't. Hawk fascinated her. Among other things he was male, which gave him a running start
Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child.
Hawk drifted around behind me in $5000 worth of clothes earning his $150 a day. We saw nothing interesting. We
Pearl the Wonder Dog was asleep on her back, in the armchair next to the fireplace, with her feet sticking up in the air.
But if I were a man," she said, "I imagine you wouldn't let me say it." "No," I said. "If I didn't need your help, I wouldn't let you say it.
Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life's classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker.
We'll let the B and E slide," Quirk said. "But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for littering.
I finished my New Amsterdam Black & Tan. I wanted another one, but I was used to that. I always wanted another one.
I peeked under the covers. Susan was naked except for a pair of thick white athletic socks. This was another good sign. Susan
You right," Hawk said. "Couldn't happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress."
"Exactly," I said. "Impossible.
"Exactly," I said. "Impossible.
I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.