Quotes from Robert Dugoni

You realize you are like 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, just a cog in the wheel trying to make some sense of where you belong in the incomprehensible grand design of it all. And you realize that people you trust are going to disappoint you, friends will come and go, and those you love will die. Sloane

there," Dan said.

I figured if God wasn't going to listen in Vietnam, when I needed him most, I wasn't gonna keep asking.

The sex trade was a lot like the drug trade; everyone wanted to raze the low-income housing where the drugs were sold but ignored the BMWs and Mercedes driving down the streets with $100 bills hanging out the windows.

We can't always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.

you didn't get that self-assurance by just getting up every day and driving into an office. It came from competition, from putting yourself at risk of losing, then winning anyway.

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

and leaping back onto the pool's edge, beating most of the displaced water. My friends shook their heads, unimpressed

I've been to hell, and I didn't see any sign of God. After a while you stop looking. You figure it out on your own.

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person's reason or justification. The consequences lie with them. Not me.

None of us is getting out of here alive. But it doesn't have to be today.

Who cares?" Sunnie

Sorry won't get my license back." Jake walked faster. "Just shut up. Don't talk to me. It's bad enough I have to spend

Andrew Bennet's relatives in the Midwest, the same relatives who hadn't spoken with him in years, were said to be sorting through the résumés of plaintiffs' lawyers, some of whom had flown across country to pitch their services and try to convince the family that death could be an economically prosperous event.

Devin swears like a sailor with Tourette's?

activities start this week, don't

Baptist church, a blur of oscillating white sheets of paper. The persistent

Sometimes bad luck is really dumb actions or inaction. You can make your own luck by making smart decisions.

I've been married so long I wouldn't know flirting if a woman took off her top in front of me.

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.' "Mr.

not just her husband, not just Jake's father, but their guardian, the person who would protect them, the person who was supposed to prevent bad things from ever happening to either of them

You are every bit as normal as any other boy, in here, where it counts. 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.