Quotes from Robert Dugoni

She looked at her doctors as if they were all nuts. "it's a pilgrimage,", she said. "It's not supposed to be easy.

It's easier to live with failure than with regret.

If you go in thinking you're going to win, you'll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you're going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.

If the evidence is suspect, so is the result.

She'd become desensitized in order to deal with very visual depictions of evil manifested in man's inhumanity to man.

We believe we choose the paths we take when we come to those forks in our lives—the friends we make, the careers we undertake, the spouses we marry. But we don't.

None of us is getting out of here alive.

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

My friends' thirty dollars wouldn't go far with gas at thirty-six cents a gallon.

And that was when I came to realize that what is important is not what is true, but what people believe is true and what they're willing to do for that belief.

I've heard you're good, but I don't think even you can sue a dead man.

I'd classify myself as a Buddhist. I believed that every living thing came from the earth and was to be respected

Don't know. Like I said, she wouldn't say much. He was her Prince Charming." "Sounds more like the toad," Kins said. "That's an insult to toads.

We try too hard to figure out why these guys kill when it's really not possible to identify all of the factors that cause an individual to become a serial murderer. Think of the billions of things that have gone into developing who you are. I'm not just talking genetics and upbringing—think of all the things you've experienced every day of your life that have shaped who you are. That's why there's no template for these guys.

A disorganized killer is much more impulsive and haphazard. Disorganized killers make mistakes, leave fingerprints, fail to keep from being seen. Organized killers consider murder to be an art that they are trying to perfect. They don't make mistakes.

you can make all kinds of plans for your future and then stumble ass-backward into what you were meant to do.

Kimi Kanasket was a black mark on an otherwise joyous occasion, like the drunk uncle who causes a scene at a family wedding. You didn't acknowledge or talk about the incident. You quietly escorted him from the building so others could focus on the celebration, and when the family got together to remember that day, the blemish was never discussed, until, as the years passed, the incident was forgotten completely.

Me and the crickets've been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.

while an arrest of the Cowboy might bring the families of his victims justice, it would never bring them closure. Tracy

It isn't going to be better, Maggie. It's going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God's way of helping us wash away the pain. So don't you ever apologize for crying; it's a reminder to us all that we're human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that's a beautiful thing.

I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table, ricocheting randomly with the impact of the cue ball. To believe otherwise was to believe that a God to whom my mother had devoted her life had responded by striking down her husband and causing her so much pain. I couldn't accept that.

A smart man learns from his

There's a can of cat food and a spoon on the floor somewhere. Take it out back and bang on it. My cat's still out there.

What was better, after all, than being in love with your best friend?