Quotes from Carla Neggers

The love of your life is the person who makes you forget what all your standards and preconceived notions about love and romance even were.

The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.

Her emotions were raw, and she was on edge. Don't let things fester, Gus used to tell him and his sisters as kids. You need to cry, cry. You need to throw something, throw something. Just don't hurt anyone.

Your view of the world is just as skewed as someone who has never seen combat... We all state our convictions from within our convictions.

yacht club. She wore a pumpkin-colored jacket and had long brown

For decades, you get up every morning knowing who you are, what you're expected to do that day. Maybe you like the accolades that come with the job, but it's the routines, the boundaries and the sense of accomplishment you miss when the work's not there any longer.

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You always get paid in cash. It's Rule One. If I'd been around to advise the Indians, do you think I'd have let them take beads for Manhattan? Hell, no.

You are only as good as your last mistake.

I stopped wanting or not wanting anything concerning Bowie a long time ago. I stay neutral. He does what he does. Always has.

Yank grunted. "That sums it up.