Quotes from Robert Dugoni

Maybe she did. Maybe she's like Houdini.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Houdini untied himself, Faz. That was the trick.

Night and day. San Francisco is wine and cheese; Oakland is beer and bratwurst.

She was sturdy, which my mother had taught me was the polite word to describe someone overweight.

For some reason, we think our parents will never grow old, perhaps because when they do, we are forced to acknowledge that we will one day grow old, and we face our own mortality.

The remodels and fresh coats of paint wouldn't cover all the shadows those two deaths had cast, the pall that had fallen over what had been a bucolic place to grow up. That

She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window. He

Guilt is never as good a motivator as love, David. Act out of love. Do it because you love your son.

Maybe I'll have Julio ink a picture of you right on my ass, so I can always remember what a piece of shit you are.

When you're one of ten, you learn quickly you're not entitled to anything but the necessities, hand-me-downs, and cars with 157,000 miles on them and the possibility of exploding gas tanks.

God made us sinners, Peter. But he also forgives those sins. That's his divine mercy. But first, we have to forgive ourselves

he was scowling like he'd received Botox injections while constipated.

Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies." I had watched Grandma O'Malley, a proud and simple woman, shrink and wrinkle and turn white over the years. But we expect that of our grandparents. Not our parents. For some reason, we think our parents will never grow old, perhaps because when they do, we are forced to acknowledge that we will one day grow old, and we face our own mortality.

My father once told me that love is not about who you can live with, but about who you cannot live without.

there is nothing so dangerous as a maxim. —C. J. MAY, "Some Rules of Evidence: Reasonable Doubt in Civil and Criminal Cases" (1876)

downtown Seattle. Though the sun shone, the temperature was brisk.

the brass and the bean counters look at the bottom line.

This was the guy in the "break glass in case of war" box.

Growing old is a privilege, not a right.

Mercaptan. They add it to natural gas so you can smell it if you have a leak in the house.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

her speedometer