Night Passage Quotes

“Hasty”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage: Jesse Stone 1

“It’s awful to be alone, Jesse.” “If you can’t be alone,” Jesse said,”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage

“If you can’t be alone,” Jesse said, “you can’t be with someone.”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage: Jesse Stone 1

“You need to be able to hear the truth, he thought. You can’t hear the truth, you got nowhere to start.”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage: Jesse Stone 1

“Driving toward Gillette on Route 59 north of Bill, Wyoming, Tom Carson felt alien in the rolling landscape. Pronghorn antelope appeared here and there in the hills, grazing in herds, strung out along a stream drinking. Buffalo grazed too in the gently undulant pastures. They weren’t wild herds, he knew. They were ranch buffalo, healthful, destined to be slaughtered and sold in specialty stores. He’d never been anywhere very much until he moved to Wyoming. Lived all his life in Paradise, and his parents too. His mother taught seventh grade at Paradise Junior High. His father ran the Gulf station. The only gas station in the downtown area. He had no military experience. He hadn’t gone to college. He’d joined the cops after working three years for his father. The”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage: Jesse Stone 1

“You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It’s not the movies. You’re in a crisis situation, you got about a half second to do what needs to be done. Your”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage