Chance Quotes

“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“Thing about getting a place with a great view,” Hawk said, “is, after you moved in and looked at the great view for a few days, you get used to it and it ain’t a great view anymore. It just what you look at out your window.”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her. It took a couple of minutes. And then I was him. He wasn’t a bad guy; in fact sometimes I thought he had strengths that the other guy didn’t have. Certainly he wasn’t worse. But he was no one I wanted to be all the time.”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“The Strip was choked with people in dogged search of fun, looking for the promise of Vegas that had brought them all from Keokuk and Presque Isle and North Platte. It wasn’t like it was supposed to be. It wasn’t the adventure of a lifetime, but it had to be. You couldn’t admit that it wasn’t. You’d come too far, expected too much, planned too long. If you stayed up later, played harder, gambled bigger, looked longer, saw another show, had another drink, stretched out a little further . . .”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“drank more scotch. “Probably he wasn’t alone,” I said. “Probably not,” Hawk murmured. “So,” I said. “How you want to handle this?”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“I finished my New Amsterdam Black & Tan. I wanted another one, but I was used to that. I always wanted another one.”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“Susan came into the living room with her cowboy boots on and no other clothes. “Howdy,” I said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance

“people trying to look like Eurotrash were sitting outside having various kinds of fancy coffee and looking at each other.”
― Robert B. Parker, Chance