Quotes from Robert Dugoni

Usted tiene el regalo. Usted es un curandero.

Life's a bitch, kid. And then you die.

They picked up a beard at a theater costume shop and applied it with rubber glue that was making Sloane's skin itch. Jenkins had

You're fishing, Detective. Problem is you've got a line in the water, but you got no bait on your hook.

you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

Inside I did not find a card. When I turned the envelope upside down, a dead fly fell onto my desk, which caused a chorus of snickering and laughter as Valerie Johnson and her entourage rushed out the door onto the playground.

Tracy's mother had liked to say that when a person hit seventy, they aged in dog's years; the transformation was that much more pronounced.

A lot of companies incorporate in Delaware," Sloane said. "The business laws are more favorable, and there is no state corporate income tax so long as the company does not transact business within Delaware.

desks perpendicular to the walls left an aisle down the middle. Sloane smelled burnt coffee. "You might want to

Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside." "People don't make fun of what's on the inside

In eternally liberal Seattle, it was better for a thief to commit a crime than to have his privacy invaded. "Is

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail.

I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

The dancer, Nicole Hansen, had been found hog-tied in a cheap motel room on Aurora Avenue in North Seattle.

approaching—the whir and chopping sound of a helicopter coming at full speed. He looked up at the night sky, and in an instant his trained eyes distinguished the moving white lights amid the stationary stars.

something about the past. Let me move forward

You can't change people's irrational beliefs, Mickie. Trust me—I know." I looked at Ernie. "So does Ernie." Ernie glanced at me and nodded. "And that guy, he's not the guy you have to worry about. The ones to worry about are the ones who cloak their discrimination behind some other excuse so you can't call them out.

ocular albinism.

The thing about memories is they're rarely as you remember them.

We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

sawhorses and sifted it. Anna Coles took photographs. Any bones or

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment. My

It could be so cruel, hope. But for twenty years it was all she'd had to hold on to, the only thing to push back the darkness that lingered on the periphery, searching for every opportunity to enshroud her.