Quotes from Robert Dugoni

glanced at the

It's like my dad used to say. If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

Yeah, she's something. Thanks, Mr. Kaufman." Tracy started from the store but turned back when Mr. Kaufman called her name.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it. Do something great with your life.

He used to say that plants are like children." "Really? How so?" "They come from a seed, sprout limbs, grow taller, stronger—but you have to nourish them." "Do

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

Oh no, Mr. Kaufman. I don't have any more money.

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

I am like the pencil I constantly sharpen with a knife; I am just a dull nub of the person I was.

of uniformed and plain-clothed officers, and a tent, and the allure was too much to resist. Even the tourists were ignoring two of the region's most iconic views—the booming image of Mount Rainier dominating the

we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts: The day we marry. The days our children are born. Their first step. Their first word. Their first day of school. And when our children grow, we remember those moments with a touch of melancholy: the day they get their driver's license, the day we drive them to college, the day they marry, and the day they have their children.

Sleep was like sex. The less you had

Putin had been a KGB foreign intelligence officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he was generally considered untrustworthy and immoral by the intelligence community.

You've climbed higher mountains than I ever had to climb, but you have one more mountain to climb, and you know it. The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there's nothing before you but the rest of your life.

Injustice was not built of stone and mortar, or of metal. It was built of greed, inhumanity, and man's thirst for power.

He removed a miniature can of graphite spray

Humor was his technique to put his patients at ease, a necessity when your specialty involved cutting other men's scrotums.

odor that reminded him of the smell of wet wood. "We

You pick women who aren't good enough, and then you rationalize how they treat you rather than just telling them they aren't good enough for you.

He had laid out a highly plausible scenario that included a motive, a weapon, opportunity, and perhaps most important, a seemingly false alibi that would cause the jurors to immediately question what Sloane was about to stand and tell them.

an officer on traffic control. "Welcome to the party," he said

we didn't really lose the war, the country just lost interest.

Vera reached behind her and handed Tracy a basket containing a wrapped loaf of her homemade bread, a glass container of salt, and a bottle of wine. "The bread is so that you may never know hunger," she said. "The salt is so that your marriage will always have flavor. The wine is so you will always have something to celebrate.

She didn't have much choice. There wasn't anyone to comfort her, and so she'd never learned how to be comforted. She was trying.