Hugger Mugger Quotes

“Mostly I thought about Susan with her clothes off. This would solve nearly any problem I had,”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“When I got out of the car”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“You remember the original bottles,” I said when I sat down. “Yep. Glass”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“Do you remember me?” she said. “Yes”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“Are you wearing Club Man again”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“five minutes early. Since I had no way to gauge her coming hither or her going hence”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“I looked at my watch. Quarter to eleven. She’d be here in an hour and a half”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“She was turned half sideways in her chair”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“All that rampant machismo, all that rancorous capitalism..... You know that the two are really mirror images of each other,” Sherry said.
“Machismo and capitalism,” I said.
“Absolutely. You’re a man, you probably don’t understand it.”
She turned to Susan. “But you do.”
“Yes,” Susan said. “Naturally. Money is power, and power is all men ever care about.”
Sherry nodded, approving of Susan’s intelligence. She put a hand out and patted Susan’s forearm. “And they don’t even know it.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“Punctuality was not Susan’s strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said.
“The Emory of the North,” Becker said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“Money makes the world go round, darlin’. And sex makes the trip worthwhile. Sex”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal on my nose.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger

“After I hung up I felt completed, the way I always did after talking to her, like a plant that had been watered.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hugger Mugger