Close to Home Quotes

“Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you’re going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“with a napkin. “Does it ever get better?” Celia set down her wine and put out a hand, taking Maggie’s. “You know I’d be lying if I said it did, right?” Maggie nodded. “I know.” “In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.” Maggie started to cry. Celia got up and”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying; it’s a reminder to us all that we’re human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that’s a beautiful thing.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.” Maggie started to cry. Celia got up and sat beside her. “It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying; it’s a reminder to us all that we’re human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that’s a beautiful thing.” Maggie smiled and wiped her tears.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I’m missing.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“but it won’t be as bad as if he tries to hide it and gets caught.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don’t see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn’t we see something so obvious as color?”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“Mirar hacia delante no significa olvidar el pasado, sino precisamente hacer algo con ese pasado.”
― Robert Dugoni, Uno de los nuestros

“What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying;”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“It does. Every social function I attend they put a big piece of fish on my plate. I end up giving it to my dates.” “Your dates must appreciate the extra piece.” The officer grinned. “They do,” she said. “Until they realize it’s the only piece they’ll be getting that night.” Checkmate. Game over.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“Celia laughed. “You’re like a seventeen-year-old girl on a prom date. Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don’t see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn’t we see something so obvious as color?”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“The loss of hope is nearly as dangerous as the drug itself. Addicts have a lot of self-hatred. They believe they’re worthless.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“something about the past. Let me move forward,”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“Looking into your child’s eyes, knowing you would never again see in them the glint of life, was the harshest kind of reality, and there wasn’t a faith in the world that could ease that pain.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“I had no idea that the loss of marijuana income had led to the Mexican, South American, and Chinese drug cartels plowing under their marijuana fields to plant poppies and to flood the United States market with cheap and affordable heroin. This”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“She didn’t have much choice. There wasn’t anyone to comfort her, and so she’d never learned how to be comforted. She was trying.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“If you go in thinking you’re going to lose, you’ve already lost. If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you’re going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“Moving forward doesn’t mean forgetting the past. Moving forward means doing something about the past.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“you didn’t get that self-assurance by just getting up every day and driving into an office. It came from competition, from putting yourself at risk of losing, then winning anyway.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“She was not in control here, and she hated feeling powerless to alter the result.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“Researchers also trace the dramatic increase in addiction to a shift in health-care philosophy that started to emphasize treating a patient’s pain rather than treating the underlying ailments. That led to an increase in opioid use.”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home

“beaten Kins, who was also burning the candle at both ends. He’d called her cell to say he was dropping off his kids at school. They were both receiving overtime for working double shifts, which had been nice when Tracy was young and single, but now she’d trade the extra money for extra sleep and she knew Kins would too. TCI was going over the car as Tracy entered the room. Joe Jensen greeted her, but not with a smile. He frowned and shook his head. “Somebody wiped down the car, inside and out,” he said. “What do you mean? Are you telling me they’re not finding any prints?” “They’re finding prints, just not where they would expect to find them.” He walked her over to the car. “For instance, the outside door handle on the driver’s side is clean.” “What about the air bag?”
― Robert Dugoni, Close to Home