Quotes from Rob Thomas

I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.

So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.

I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.

have I heard that grief softens the mind, and makes it fearful and degenerate; think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.'" Veronica wasn't sure which play the quote was from, but she knew exactly what it meant: You get tough. You get even. You get tough. Had Mars Investigations been the sort of outfit that bothered to draft a list of its "Core Values," that would've been a top fiver.

In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back.

normal's the watchword

There weren't many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Bursting into flame would definitely blow my cover.

Sure, there were a few more duct-taped tears in the vinyl seats, a few new dings in the fiberglass surfboards lining the walls, but the bacon was still crisp and pancakes were available twenty-four hours a day, the way the good Lord intended.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

I'm with Logan, and I love him more than I thought I could love a man, and we have the opportunity to to be happy in spite of everything and I can't throw all that away for something more convenient.

You always have a choice, she spat. You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting.

Loose lips sink ships, Mr. Kiss and Tell.

This is why you shouldn't hire your friends. It's all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

Nothing was worthless. Not if you knew who needed it. Not if you knew how to salvage it.

Veronica's hands wouldn't stop shaking. She held the revolver straight out from her body and breathed slowly, deeply, the hot-metal smell stinging her nostrils. She tried to relax her shoulders.

Excuse me for troubling your capraesque lives with this first-ever note of moral unclarity.

Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot—or the other fist—to fall knew how to sense danger.

She and her mom used to visit him on lunch breaks and, in later years, she did her homework in an empty interrogation room while eavesdropping on the dispatch.