Double Deuce Quotes

“Jesus Christ,” she said. “You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“I don’t think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It’s just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit.”
“Wow,” Hawk said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.”
“Adler?”
“Theodor Reik, I think.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“One must have a mind of winter, I thought, to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
- from The Snow Man, by Wallace Stevens”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“I guess I mean that nature hates a vacuum. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“And it’s the reason I wanted you to live with me.” “Not because I am cuter than a bug’s ear?” “That too,” Susan said. “But mostly I wanted to pretend to be what I had never been.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce

“The speaker was the size of a tall”
― Robert B. Parker, Double Deuce