The Judas Goat Quotes

“Hawk said, “This dude trying to save Africa too?” “Yes. He … he hates blacks worse than anyone I’ve seen.” “That helps,” I said. “You can reason with him, Hawk.” “I got something under my coat for reasoning.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“I was finding that more and more women were paying me no attention these days. Perhaps tastes were drifting away from the matinee idol type.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“You can’t plan on the enemy’s intentions,” I said. “You have to plan on what he can do, not what he might.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Flamingos on the grass, alas.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Hawk has no feelings,” I said. “But he has rules. If she fits one of his rules, he’ll treat her very well. If she doesn’t, he’ll treat her any way the mood strikes him.” “Do you really think he has no feelings?” “I have never seen any. He’s as good as anyone I ever saw at what he does. But he never seems happy or sad or frightened or elated. He never, in the twenty-some years I’ve known him, here and there, has shown any sign of love or compassion. He’s never been nervous. He’s never been mad.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Did William Powell take Myrna Loy to a Dunkin’ Donut shop?” “He didn’t know enough,” I said. I raised my coffee cup toward her.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“She laughed in the darkness. “Of course it is,” she said. “That’s the story of your life. What doesn’t matter. It’s how you look when you do it.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Suze,” I said, “I’m a middle-aged man.” “I know,” Susan said. “I see it as a challenge.” We went into the bedroom and lay close in the bed, sipping the champagne and watching the late movie in the air-conditioned darkness. Life may be flawed but sometimes things are just right. The late movie was The Magnificent Seven. When Steve McQueen looked at Eli Wallach and said, “We deal in lead, friend,” I said it along with him.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“I have never seen any. He’s as good as anyone I ever saw at what he does. But he never seems happy or sad or frightened or elated. He never, in the twenty-some years I’ve known him, here and there, has shown any sign of love or compassion. He’s never been nervous. He’s never been mad.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“No wonder you look tired,” she said when I finished. We were on the last bottle of champagne and most of the food was gone. She was easy to tell things to. She understood quickly, she supplied missing pieces without asking questions, and she was interested. She wanted to hear.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“the cut.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“She’s a sicko, Hawk.” “Ah ain’t planning to screw her psyche, babe.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“It’s just that myth about your equipment,” I said. “Ain’t no myth, man.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Hawk drifted around behind me in $5000 worth of clothes earning his $150 a day. We saw nothing interesting. We”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“There was no way to tell, looking at me, that I only had $387 in the bank. Three-piece”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“It was the longest we had been apart since we’d met. I said, “Home from the hills is the hunter.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Not smoking gains in the area of lung cancer, but it loses badly in the realm of dramatic gestures.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“My champagne is gone. Do you think you are, if you’ll pardon the phrase, up for another transport of ecstasy?”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat