Noir Quotes by Robert B. Parker

“Jesus Christ,” she said. “You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer.”

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“Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.”

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“There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.”

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“Because I love you,” I said. “Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.”

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“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.”

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“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.”

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“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.”

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“Candy nodded absently. “Okay,” she said. “What shall I wear?” “A gun,” I said.”

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“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to…

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“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The…

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“It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making…

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“You ever f**k Susan here?” she said, her face almost touching mine. “I’m impressed,” I said. “The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse,…

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“And I’ve met a very wonderful woman,” I said. “They’re all wonderful,” Haller said. “Well, many of them,” I said. “I love…

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

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“How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?” I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. “Exploit the…

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“Can you analyze our relationship in the light of Silvermanian pragmatism?” I said. “I love you because I find it compelling to…

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“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She…

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“I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood…

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“I NEVER SAW Susan without feeling a small but discernible thrill. The thrill was mixed with a feeling of gratitude that she…

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“You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument.” “Wanted is too simple,” Susan said. She had shifted her…

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“The Mass. Ave. Bridge is open... Some MIT students once measured it by repeatedly placing an undergraduate named Smoot on the ground…

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“Say it turns out to be the gun, and it’s going to be major-league coincidence if it doesn’t, you’re going to want…

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“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And…

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“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.…

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“Whatever you did, and whoever you killed, and however you feel about it, you have to judge all of that in context.…

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“The women looked naked, in a way that women never do in skin magazines. These women were real, with the fine roughening…

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“Susan said. “You ought to not forget that whoever you killed last year, there were people you could have killed and didn’t.”…

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“Later, early Christmas morning, I was still awake, and Susan was asleep, on her back, with her mouth open slightly. I looked…

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“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And…

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“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.” “Adler?” “Theodor Reik, I think.”

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“Shopping is never over,” Susan said. “It is merely suspended.”

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“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,…

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“Do you have a first name, Mr. Spenser'?” Jill said. She had a soft girlish voice with just a hint of huskiness…

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“One must have a mind of winter, I thought, to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.…

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“Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life’s classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold…

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“You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said. “Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just…

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“Everyone froze. In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had…

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“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for…

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“Rachel drank some more bourbon. “What I am trying to do,” she said, “is to thank you. And to say it as…

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“ Conversation between Susan's therapist and Spenser - "And when you find her? Then what?" "Then she will be free again to…

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