Hush Money Quotes

“What if you could be young again and were able to undo the things that were done that made you into the person you would later become. But then who would you be.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“You ever f**k Susan here?” she said, her face almost touching mine.
“I’m impressed,” I said. “The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse, and voyeuristic. That’s quite a lot to get into a simple question.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“I suspected that Quant hadn’t convinced anyone who hadn’t come convinced. But he had made them see that he was pleasant, and that he spoke as if what he espoused was both reasonable and kind, and they were puzzled.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“His answers were largely bullshit, but they were good bullshit. I had years ago learned that it was useless to debate zealots. They had spent most of their adult life thinking intensely about the object of their zealotry. Normally their debaters had not.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“Quant went on. If he spoke ill of other races and religions, if he said that all American values were to be found only in white Christian males, he said it obliquely, sliding it in always in terms of honor and cleanliness, heritage, straightness, and respect.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“University politics is very odd. You get a lot of people gathered together who, if they couldn’t do this, really couldn’t do anything. They are given to think that they are both intelligent and important because they have Ph.D.s and most people don’t. Often, though not always, the Ph.D. does indicate mastery over a subject. But that’s all it indicates, and, unfortunately, many people with Ph.D.s think it covers a wider area than it does. They think it empowers their superior insight into government and foreign policy and race relations and such.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“You right,” Hawk said. “Couldn’t happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress.”
“Exactly,” I said. “Impossible.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“Bellini”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money

“One of the things that made Susan so interesting was the fact that she looked like a Jewish princess and worked like a Bulgarian peasant.”
― Robert B. Parker, Hush Money