Rick Cochran > Rick's Quotes

“Sports has a way of leveling the playing field. You can't fake it, you can't buy it, and you can't use your connections on the court. You can either play, or you can't - and Rob could play.”
― Rick Cochran, Murder at Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery

“He reached for another cigarette and headed toward the Old Colony Tap. Maybe his answers were in a bottle of beer. He had never found them there before, but there was always a first time.”
― Rick Cochran, Bound Brook Pond

“Well, that's no secret, you ought to know that pretty much everybody in Bound Brook is related to everybody else. My father used to say that you couldn't throw a stone without hitting a relative, and sometimes that's just what you felt like doing.”
― Rick Cochran, Murder at Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery

“The "Bouwerie" as the Dutch once called it, was a country road surrounded by grain fields, gardens and wildflowers. A retreat for well-heeled New Yorkers in the summer, the Bowery was far less populated in the winters.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“Like others who had once enjoyed an elite lifestyle, Lucy craved its return and whenever opportunity arrived, attempted to recreate it...By then no one questioned Lucy's role as the reigning hostess of celebrations, a role she continued to hold in public celebrations during the early Federal period.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“If Peggy's personal star was on the rise, Arnold's was in freefall as their respective ships headed into the high seas.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“It bothered him that his father’s name would never be on the War Memorial in front of the Town Hall. It wouldn’t bring him back, but it would have been nice to see him honored. However, the United States hadn’t been at war yet, so Charles Curtis was just a name on a headstone in Pine Grove Cemetery. He was one of many Bound Brook sailors with empty graves who had been lost at sea. Like the minister had said at his father’s funeral: “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.””

— BOUND BROOK POND: Cape Cod Mystery II (Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery Book 2) by Rick Cochran”
― Rick Cochran