Thin Air Quotes

“Some donuts would have helped. On the other hand, I couldn’t think of anything some donuts wouldn’t help.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“How come it takes you all that time to find the right donut?” I said. “They’re all the same.” “No two donuts are alike,” Chollo said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“It’s the truth,” she said. “To be sane, you have to know the truth and be able to say it.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“Remember, life is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” “Horace Walpole?”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“We do much better,” she said, “explaining why people did things than we do at predicting what they will do.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“I sometimes think I know you entirely,” I said. “You know me better than anyone ever has,” Susan said. “And yet you’re quite secretive,” I said. “You surprise me often.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“Probably the easiest and most efficient approach was to hate everybody. Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson?”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“Finally it was probably less the poverty that bred crime than the sour stench of racism that hung over anyplace where people are separated out by kind.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“Susan always claimed that when I ate a sub I looked like I’d fought with it.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“It was that juxtaposition of how it used to be with how it had turned out that made L.A. so interesting and so sad a place, I thought.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air

“But a lot of people got married so they could fuck six times a week. Then in a while they only felt like fucking once a week and had to talk to each other in between. Created a lot of drunks.”
― Robert B. Parker, Thin Air