Quotes from Robert Dugoni

He sat back envisioning himself poking a stick at a tiger through the bars of a cage. Then the tiger grew angry, lunged, and snapped the stick off in his hand.

grown a size larger, in Rowe's opinion. More than

You're human, Tracy, which means you're not perfect. You're going to fail, through no fault of your own. That's part of being human, being imperfect. The question is, can you live with being imperfect? Can you live with failure?

My insomnia stretched to months. When I did sleep, it was with the aid of a pill, but even that did not prevent the nightmares

fathers' flaws and weaknesses. They knew they weren't heroes

Researchers also trace the dramatic increase in addiction to a shift in health-care philosophy that started to emphasize treating a patient's pain rather than treating the underlying ailments. That led to an increase in opioid use.

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle. We

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill FOREWORD My mother called it "God's will.

She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

again, but he missed his flight out. I don't have to ask him why he missed his plane. I know why. He's scared to go home. He doesn't feel like he belongs there anymore. He belongs here. He has a job here. What's he going to do at home, without a leg?

straightening to his full height. Intimidation

Everything is going to be okay.

He'd gone back to speak to the bartender at the Yakimanka Bar, but the man had gotten a rapid case of the three monkeys. He no longer could see, hear, or speak of the shooting.

into neutral and scanned the surface of the water for a conical-shaped shadow, his red-and-white buoy.

which was ironic because hair seemed to cover every other visible part of his body. A

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

Tom Molia stood at the bottom, four feet deep, bare chested, coughing spasmodically into his shirt, which he pressed tightly over his nose and mouth.

Her muscles cramped and eventually seized. When

Interrupting a man when he's discussing his profession is like telling him what he has to say isn't important. Besides, you never learn anything when you're talking." Lane

scowling like he'd received Botox injections while constipated.

He told me he felt guilty to have lived, to have made it home when so many did not.

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill

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