I Died Twice Quotes

“The fact that I’d become so wealthy so soon before my demise, and the unexplained disappearance of my money, only added gasoline to the firestorm of speculation. To this day, there remains no true account of my sad passing. For most of my life I had been a no-one, a lonely young woman who had never known happiness, and only dreamed of love. In death I became prettier, more important, because the public learned that in the days leading up to my death, I had found both happiness and love. I had just begun to live when my life ended, making what happened all the more tragic”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“Without being able to explain how I knew, having no more experience than I had in such matters, I instinctively realized that she was extraordinarily beautiful. Yet hers was the kind of beauty that wouldn’t always gets noticed. Someone passing her on the street probably would never give her a second look. It was when you focused on her for a moment or two that you realized how lovely she was.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“So, where to, Kitty Foyle?”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“Hearing the same shows I had listened to with the other girls at the orphanage kept me connected to them in my heart. It was a comfort knowing that back home — my old home — they were listening to them too…”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“Yeah, that’s it! There’s these gorgeous paintings on the arches. Now, they ain’t my cup o’ java, mind ya, but it’s gotta be high class, cause one them women’s topless, and ain’t nobody pays her no attention. That’s when you know it’s art,” Henry added, as though he was sharing some profound insight, “when you can make the gals naked and no one makes a fuss about it.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“Puttin’ two slugs in some gumshoe in an alley behind the Whitman’s Chocolates place, now that ain’t their style at all. Murder, My Sweet’s what me and Louisa’s been callin’ it. You know, like that movie with that singer fella playing the detective? Because it was next to the chocolate place.” Henry laughed at his own joke. Everything about him was friendly. So friendly he could make light of murder.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“Things were always tight because the state only allowed for room and board and meals. I knew this money had come from sacrifice and love. I wiped my tears and whispered to my empty compartment, “I love you, too.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“It heightened the tension while we listened to Suspense. Nearly all the girls leaned forward, wide-eyed in dread at the heroine’s predicament. She was trapped on a lonely country road, and a killer was on the loose!”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“My mother had died giving birth to me, and no one seemed to know who my father was, so I had become a ward of the state. I had grown up in the orphanage, under the warm and caring tutelage of Aunt Betty and Aunt Gertie, my two mothers. We called them our aunts, but they were really more like mothers.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“It’s difficult to explain, but Henry and my aunts were cut from the same cloth. In some small way, having this time with Henry, before I became a woman always looking over her shoulder, was almost like saying goodbye to Aunt Betty and Aunt Gertie.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice

“He leaned in and pretended to examine every counter of my face, as though he were Lauren Bacall and I was Humphrey Bogart from Dark Passage. Then he pulled back and did a comical double-take like Cary Grant in My Favorite Wife.”
― Bobby Underwood, I Died Twice