Quotes from Robert Dugoni

My mother used to tell me that life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

You know that saying, the one I've told the kids about growing old being a privilege, not a right?

Levi Strauss supports the anti-gun lobbyists. We wore Wrangler or Lee, but Sarah thought they made her butt look big so she wore Levi's. You had to know her to appreciate

World Series in Seattle.

crushing headache.

the service skills of a government employee one week from retirement.

The dead don't bury the dead. Only the living can do that.

brogue. "Not this fair-skinned Irishman. We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

failure is easier to live with than regret

She could get upset, but what good would that do? Bitterness was never a good recipe for happiness.

His ego was just too big, almost as if he were genetically predisposed to be an ass.

Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don't see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn't we see something so obvious as color?

his corporal, Victor Cruz, advised him not to make friends in Vietnam, that it was easier that way when those soldiers were killed.

It's . . . it's in the apartment.

chess was more than a game. Chess could be a way to live her life. They had played at night, after dinner and homework. Before a crackling fire, Patsy taught Keera to evaluate before reacting to an opponent's moves. He taught her to strategize, to consider not just her next move, but her opponent's options and how she would counter each. He told her the best trial lawyers were strong chess players.

pitched off-kilter at almost a forty-five-degree angle.

clip of her Glock, slapped it back into place, and chambered

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.' Proverbs 21:15.

Faz could see why, given Tanny's size—not to mention the woman behind the counter. She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window.

They came in late

told you, Charlie, the FSB is a more refined version of the KGB.

needed to be done in the next day and a half.

Armstrong squinted.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Justice Felix Frankfurter Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 1949.