Robin > Robin's Quotes

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”
― Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment

“He was going to give us the little lady treatment," Effie said.
"What?"
"You know, like John Wayne. Treating us like lobotomy patients because we haven't got boy parts.”
― Maia Chance, Bad Housekeeping

“This is the problem with going back home and hanging out with your family. Everything seizes up in a time warp where we're all the most unflattering versions of ourselves.”
― Maia Chance, Bad Housekeeping

“I dressed in another high school special from my closet: a long, shapeless floral dress with about twenty buttons down the front. Maybe that doesn't sound too bad, but let me assure you, it looked like the polar opposite of terrific once I'd tied my orange sneakers on. I looked like the least favorite wife of a cult leader.”
― Maia Chance, Bad Housekeeping

“I don't mind being stared at, but not in that pitchforks-and-torches way.”
― Maia Chance, Bad Housekeeping

“Just like I was hooked the first time I worked a homicide. I knew then that I was different from everyone else, set apart from the concerns of everydy life that swept everyone else forward, on a river of errands, work, dates, drinking, eating, and sleeping. I was going in a different direction, toward revelation and retribution, and here were damn few of us headed that way.”
― James R. Benn, Billy Boyle

“I kicked off my shoes, tossed my jacket onto the chair, loosened my tie, and closed my eyes for about half an hour. Catnaps and spy chasing are my specialties.”
― James R. Benn, Billy Boyle

“Watching Dad figure things out was like watching an artist paint a picture. He used to say an investigation was a lot like art, just a blank canvas and a whole lot of different colors in little jars. All the clues were there, just like a painting was already in those little jars of paint. But you had to mix them together and put them on the canvas right, so it all made sense.”
― James R. Benn, Billy Boyle

“Nervous? Why, Lieutenant Boyle, whatever for? We're just about to leave on a six-hundred-mile trip through enemy infested waters, with a big, fat low-pressure system just sitting over us, dumping buckets of rain and churning up waves taller that houses, in order to land you alone in Nazi-occupied Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle, and leave you there. Why should you be nervous?”
― James R Benn

“a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.”
― E.J. Copperman, Written Off

“I think it is right that you should know I am here in the capacity of a private enquiry agent."
If she had announced that she was there in the capacity of a Fairy Godmother or of First Murderer, she could hardly have surprised him more. In fact, the Fairy Godmother would have seemed quite appropriate by comparison.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Silent Pool

“...why doesn't anything end happily?"
"Because," said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, "there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“I am extremely sorry to disturb you. I hope that you had not retired?"
"I'm putting it off as long as possible. I don't know what they've used in the mattress, It's not sharp enough fro roadmetal -- I rather suspect mangelwurzels. I am covered with bucolic bruises." -”
― Patricia Wentworth, Wicked Uncle

“It came home to him then that he was separated from the people round him -- not as yet by bolts and bars, by prison walls, or by the sentence of the law, but by the intangible barriers which have separated the murderer from his kind ever since the mark was set on Cain.”
― Patricia Wentworth, Wicked Uncle

“The next hour of canvassing was like a greatest hits tour for the worried well. Yoga, Pilates, massage, energy healing, and Rolfing specialists occupied space next to an optometrist, nutritionist, and a variety of MDs. You could have your aura checked, get your spine realigned, and have a colonoscopy, all without moving your car.”
― Ingrid Thoft, Loyalty

“The food is "farm to table," though when you order eggs, I'm not sure what other route they'd go.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Daisy wore a clingy black dress with a neckline so deep it could tutor philosophy.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“My great-grandfather, Dad often told us, saved his best wines for special occasions. He was killed when the Nazis invaded Paris. The Nazis ended up drinking his wine. Lesson: you never wait. When I was growing up, we used only the good plates. We used the best linens. We drank out of Waterford crystal. When my father died, his wine cellar was nearly empty.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“It was the egret, flying out of the lemon grove, that started it. I won’t pretend I saw it straight away as the conventional herald of adventure, the white stag of the fairy-tale, which, bounding from the enchanted thicket, entices the prince away from his followers, and loses him in the forest where danger threatens with the dusk.”
― Mary Stewart, The Moon-Spinners

“I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Terrible Beauty

“Of course, being from Detroit, I’ve never quite trusted happiness
So I returned to a city where happiness is usually a matter of finding contentment in an acceptable level of intangible fear, unfocussed loathing and unexplainable ennui.”
― Stephen Mack Jones, August Snow

“Girls might be girls, but not, I thought, borderline psychotics.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“You know, sir," he said, "she was easily the nicest woman I ever knew." Sampson suppressed a smile. It was funny to hear a boy of seventeen talk like that. All the same, he reflected, the lad might live to seventy and still find no reason to change his opinion.”
― Cyril Hare, Death Walks the Woods

“Week before last, cold shooed warmth into a wish and a memory, then rattled tree limbs to leaflessness with one gnarly hand, while gripping the earth with the other.”
― Jess Montgomery, The Stills

“We headed upstairs, looking down on the living room that featured a grand piano. Of course it did. This was the kind of neighborhood where every parent makes their kid take piano lessons, but no parent wants their kid to be a musician.”
― Matt Goldman

“She wasn't exactly pretty but was attractive in the way most twenty-five-year-olds are - she still had hope. And hope is drop-dead gorgeous.”
― Matt Goldman

“I don't have a college degree but I've made up for it by studying a rare field called Useful Shit.”
― Matt Goldman