A Catskill Eagle Quotes

“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, A Catskill Eagle

“You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said.
“Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just need a little ironing.”
“So does your life,” Belson said.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“But if I were a man,” she said, “I imagine you wouldn’t let me say it.” “No,” I said. “If I didn’t need your help, I wouldn’t let you say it.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“Sartre claimed that hell is other people,” I said. “He never saw no TV game show,” Hawk said.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

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― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It’s all there is.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“Sartre claimed that hell is other people,” I”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“Conversation between Susan's therapist and Spenser -
"And when you find her? Then what?"
"Then she will be free again to come here and work with you until she can make the choices she wishes to make."
"And what if you are not that choice?"
"I think I will be. But I can't control that. What I can do is see that she's free to choose.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“The rich really are very different,” Tyler Costigan was saying. “Especially if they are also unscrupulous.” ... “They have always gotten what they wished, and after a while they think they are supposed to. If they have a problem they hire someone to solve it. And they become ever more contemptuous of people who cannot. They even become contemptuous of people who have problems. And eventually they are contemptuous of everyone and care only about what they want.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle

“Ten minutes out of the city I made Hawk stop the car and I threw up on the side of the road. When I got back in the car Hawk said, “You shot Leo to protect those whores.”
I nodded.
“Had to be done,” Hawk said.
“I know.”
“You’ll feel better in a while,” Hawk said.
“Better than Leo,” I said.”
― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle