“No olive?” I said. “Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini,” Cosgrove said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. — Robert B. Parker Life Copy Share Image
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is. — Robert B. Parker Ability Copy Share Image
“What we have here,” I said, “is a roomful of culprits, with varying levels of culpritude.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Shopping is never over,” Susan said. “It is merely suspended.” — Robert B. Parker Noir 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
“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
“The best moments in my life,” I said, “have come because I loved somebody.” “Yeah,” he said. “And the worst,” I said.” — Robert B. Parker Best moments Copy Share Image
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The room was amazing. It was all glass, including the domed roof, and in all directions it offered a view of the… — Robert B. Parker Atlantic ocean 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… — Robert B. Parker Ideas Copy Share Image
“The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably… — Robert B. Parker Drinking Copy Share Image
“I headed straight into the setting sun, and rode west at an easy pace. It was going to be a long ride,… — Robert B. Parker Setting Sun Copy Share Image
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able… — 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 Noir 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 Love 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… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Belson came into the apartment with some crime-scene people and two homicide detectives. “This guy,” Charlie said, and looked at his notebook,… — Robert B. Parker Police Copy Share Image
“The urban renewers had struck again. They'd evicted me, a fortune-teller, and a bookie from the corner of Mass. Ave. and Boylston,… — Robert B. Parker Evicted Copy Share Image
“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And… — 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 Last place 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 Christmas morning Copy Share Image
“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And… — Robert B. Parker Cherry pie Copy Share Image
Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They… — 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 Noir Copy Share Image
“Punctuality was not Susan’s strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a… — Robert B. Parker Adaptation Copy Share Image
I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“They are more inclined to think you’re innocent if you sound like Barbara Walters,” Rita said. “You think Barbara would be a… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“We’ll let the B and E slide,” Quirk said. “But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for… — Robert B. Parker Littering Copy Share Image
“tape on and the car trembled with percussion all the way to Saugus, where Hawk pulled into a Martignetti’s off Route 1… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.” “Adler?” “Theodor Reik, I think.” — Robert B. Parker Dark Copy Share Image
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. — Robert B. Parker Admiration 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 Noir Copy Share Image
