Quotes from Robert B. Parker

It was the longest we had been apart since we'd met. I said, "Home from the hills is the hunter.

We do much better," she said, "explaining why people did things than we do at predicting what they will do.

Spenser, he said. Thank God you called. I've got this murder took place in a locked room. It's got us all stumped and the chief said, Quirk, he said, only one man can solve this.

I took a sip. It went surprisingly well with the veal. On the other hand, the fourth margarita goes surprisingly well with everything.

When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.

I got up and let Pearl in. She dashed into the room, jumped on the bed, turned around about twelve times, and plumped down hard against Susan, in the spot that until recently had been occupied by me.

Susan said, Ã¢â'¬Å"Have you given any thought to how we should spend Christmas?" "Only that we should be together." I glanced over at the softly snoring Pearl. "With Pearl, of course. Hawk, too. Maybe

Anger doesn't have to be expressed. It is enough to know that you're angry, and know why, and not lie to yourself about it.

Probably the easiest and most efficient approach was to hate everybody. Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson?

Dr. (Samuel) Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I liked the rain. It was interesting to look at, and I enjoyed the feeling of shelter on a rainy day. When

Christmas dinner? At Susan's?" I nodded. "We could call it a Kwanzaa dinner, if that would improve your mood.

that called itself the jazz sound, but

There were Palladian windows and a number of roof peaks and an assortment of architectural conceits, all overlooking a vast lawn devoid of ornamentation.

I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan's picture on my desk. Let us be true to one another, dear.

The speaker was the size of a tall

I haven't seen so many Anglo Saxons in one place since the Republican Convention," I said. "You've never been to the Republican Convention," Susan said.

You right," Hawk said. "Couldn't happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress." "Exactly," I said. "Impossible.

See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it.

It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't. I had given up the punctuality battle years ago. And the pleasure of her company when she did show up was always worth the wait.

What do you do about people who don't like having your dog in their lap when they come to visit?" Farrell said. "We assume there is something wrong with them," Susan said. "And we try to help them.

Not smoking gains in the area of lung cancer, but it loses badly in the realm of dramatic gestures.

So you think it's an accident?" "No." "Couldn't you have said that to start?" "I have a Ph.D.," Susan said. "From Harvard. If I had done postdoctoral work I wouldn't be able to speak at all." "Of course," I said.

Wanting more than you can have will spoil what you've got.