Quotes from Robert Dugoni

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

buried her at the Catholic cemetery. Six weeks later, I buried my father beside her. He simply could not live without her.

When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don't sweat the other five percent.

Sarah bit at a fingernail. "Could we still see each other every day?" Tracy lifted her arm. Sarah slid closer. "Of course we will. You're my favorite sister, even if you are a brat." "I'm your only sister.

Sunnie could talk to a dead body for an hour before she'd notice the person wasn't breathing, and likely finish her story even after she had.

What bothers you most, the fact that I beat your score on the shooting range, or that I broke your nose and kneed you in the nuts?

Well, at least now you admit you did it on purpose." "A target that small, it had to be on purpose or I would have missed." Nolasco dropped the smirk. "You won't last six months in burglary." "I agree," she said. "I told you six years ago. I intend to take your job." THE END

Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil," Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. "We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!" "You want to call me back after you call and get permission?" "You know it, brother.

I'd never thought of Ernie as black. He was just my best friend.

To every man and woman who wears a uniform, carries a badge, and spends their days and nights working in the criminal justice system to keep the rest of us safe. We are often too quick to criticize and too slow to say thank you.

terrible twos

If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I'm missing.

You're a woman, Katie. You don't need any other reason for them to think you're incompetent.

It's like anything you do; if you want to do it well, you have to work at it.

a part of me had always known that i'd stayed in the relationship longer than i should because i lacked the confidence to believe i'd find someone else who would accept me and my condition. i was also smart enough to know that would never happen until i fully accepted me.

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

Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.

was like trying to find an honest man in Congress.

every cross we bear is an opportunity.

She'd always been quick to anger, a bad trait when accompanied by a sharp tongue that cut before she could curtail it.

The world played chess, while I played checkers.

It does. Every social function I attend they put a big piece of fish on my plate. I end up giving it to my dates." "Your dates must appreciate the extra piece." The officer grinned. "They do," she said. "Until they realize it's the only piece they'll be getting that night." Checkmate. Game over.

Let me guess," Sloane said, though his recollection of criminal law was fuzzy. "Kozlowski ruled there was no probable cause for the initial decision to search the trunk of the car.

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«