“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Can you analyze our relationship in the light of Silvermanian pragmatism?” I said. “I love you because I find it compelling to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“ Conversation between Susan's therapist and Spenser - "And when you find her? Then what?" "Then she will be free again to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Rachel drank some more bourbon. “What I am trying to do,” she said, “is to thank you. And to say it as… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Later, early Christmas morning, I was still awake, and Susan was asleep, on her back, with her mouth open slightly. I looked… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life’s classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “You ought to not forget that whoever you killed last year, there were people you could have killed and didn’t.”… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Whatever you did, and whoever you killed, and however you feel about it, you have to judge all of that in context.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes out of the city I made Hawk stop the car and I threw up on the side of the road.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Everyone froze. In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You right,” Hawk said. “Couldn’t happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress.” “Exactly,” I said. “Impossible.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Do you have a first name, Mr. Spenser'?” Jill said. She had a soft girlish voice with just a hint of huskiness… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said. “Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The Mass. Ave. Bridge is open... Some MIT students once measured it by repeatedly placing an undergraduate named Smoot on the ground… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You ever f**k Susan here?” she said, her face almost touching mine. “I’m impressed,” I said. “The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She had turned… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I think you’ve never quite altogether forgiven yourself for that woman in Los Angeles all that time ago.” “Candy Sloan,” I said. Susan nodded.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“called Evan Malone at the number Epstein had given me and got his wife, and made an appointment to come up to his place… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
