68 quotes found
“All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born.”
“My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car wind...”
“Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained why should leave (Birmingham) and go home... It were really painful.I bet it w...”
“You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski”
“I came, I saw, I concurred...”
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.”
“Surprised huh, thought you had me back in prison didnt you? To answer your question what keeps me alive is my drive, my drive to kill you! I have nothing, but hate for you and your family. It will ...”
“I wake and in those first fuddled moments forget youre not here. I must have been dreaming about you a tense, erotic dream. I reach out in bed to the place your body should be. Its cold and there ...”
“Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.Murder in the Dog Park”
“As I left his office he continued his telephone conversation, and as Amanda had declared, she was in fact waiting for me. So, Amanda, what is it now? Who is it you want to fix me up with today? We...”
“My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.”
“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
“Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a stron...”
“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart r...”
“When youretwenty-one, life is a roadmap.Its only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect youve beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until youreforty are you entirely sure.”
“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”
“She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. That's n...”
“We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.”
“You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.”
“She was a cute as a washtub.”
