Pale Kings And Princes Quotes

“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to lynch your ass.”
“Charm can only carry you so far,” I said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“So far so good. I had a recently widowed mother and her orphaned son crying hysterically. Maybe for an encore I could shoot the family dog.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“ruling class does not make alcohol illegal,”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“Say it turns out to be the gun, and it’s going to be major-league coincidence if it doesn’t, you’re going to want to know whose gun it is, and if I tell you that I’ll have to tell you how I know it’s his and if I tell you that I’ll have to tell you things I don’t want to tell you.”
“But now that we know you’ve got it,” Lundquist said, “we can sort of insist.”
“True,” I said.
“And you know how hard we can insist when we feel like insisting.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“The sedan went too and I stood alone in the woods and watched my ear burn.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“that called itself the jazz sound, but”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes

“You know that you can’t predict and you can’t expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pale Kings And Princes