Taming a Sea-Horse Quotes

“A thing is what it is....and not something else.”
― Robert Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse

“Whatever you did, and whoever you killed, and however you feel about it, you have to judge all of that in context. You were doing what you felt you had to do, and you were doing it for love.”
“The people I killed are just as dead.”
“Yes. It makes no difference to them why you did it. But it makes a difference to me and to you. What we’ve been through in the last couple of years has produced the relationship we have now, achieved love, maybe. Something we’ve earned, something we’ve paid for in effort and pain and maybe mistakes as well. I live with some.”
“I know,” I said.
“We aren’t who we were,” she said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse

“Suki and I danced a”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming A Sea-Horse

“Since when do you and I talk about the world,” she said. “The world is what it is.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“Not only do you know, you’ve helped me to know.”

“Good to be useful,” I said.

“What has always made me respect you, even in the
bad times, was your ability to look out at the world
and see what’s there. Not what you’d like to see, or
even what you need to see, but simply what’s there.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse

“Susan said. “You ought to not forget that whoever you killed last year, there were people you could have killed and didn’t.”
“There’s that,” I said.
“We all do what we need to, and what we have to, not what we ought to, or ought to have. You’re a violent man. You wouldn’t do your work if you weren’t. What makes you so attractive, among other things, is that your capacity for violence is never random, it is rarely self-indulgent, and you don’t take it lightly. You make mistakes. But they are mistakes of judgment. They are not mistakes of the heart.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse

“Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life’s classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse

“I took a sip. It went surprisingly well with the veal. On the other hand, the fourth margarita goes surprisingly well with everything.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming A Sea-Horse

“I was doing curls. Hawk said, “How you and Susan doing?” “Love is lovelier,” I said, “the second time around.” “Worth the scramble,” Hawk said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming A Sea-Horse

“Some easy-listening Muzak came onto the phone. I held it away from my ear. If you listened close for long, it gave you cavities.”
― Robert B. Parker, Taming A Sea-Horse