Bobby Underwood Quotes

Off in the distance big white cruise ships had pulled into port, glistening beneath the Mexican sun. Vacationers for whom murder was not on the itinerary. Throngs of young college kids on break, males...

One does not have to give up their own beliefs to understand and respect those of another people. We must learn to live together, now, there is no other way.

She was the kind of girl any guy could fall head over heels for in five seconds and I was trying to decide if she was on the up-and-up. We'd talked and sparred and laughed, yet I still knew nothing ab...

Then something happened which made Callie feel something she’d never felt before. A tall boy close to her own age stepped from the train and gave the big man a hug.

I heard it first. Footsteps. They were faint, and not localized in any particular area, but they were footsteps. The sound was like an echo from very far away. If they were the kind of footsteps I bel...

We’re certainly glad to have you aboard. You’re the top man in your field. I can think of no better case to start you on than that of Laura Blake. If one didn’t know that she was completely delusional...

There was something starkly different about him that separated him from other men, reflected even in his choice of horses. Every seasoned cowboy, and even some greenhorns, knew owning a white horse to...

There are only really two kinds of people in the world; those who love small towns, and those who hate them.

I reached over and turned on the Buick Roadmaster’s radio. It was Sunday night, and the Jack Benny program was starting. Even Rochester’s interactions with Jack couldn’t quell my apprehension tonight.

So, where to, Kitty Foyle?

The stars were out and bright, and the moon was close to full. There were no UFOs hovering over the trailer or anywhere else that I could see. It might seem strange to be so nonchalant about it all, b...

The late afternoon sky over Paris imparted a softer glow to the city, hinting in a lover’s whisper to be patient with her, because the romantic heaven of Paris by night was only a few hours away, and...

The human heart buries memories of love, files them away somewhere when they don't work out, because it hurts too much to remember feelings that you have little hope of recapturing. The truth is, you...

The city itself was dead. Some buildings had chunks missing. Bricks and concrete were scattered along sidewalks, debris mingling with bodies. Once this had been a thriving metropolis with a heartbeat...

Some primal instinct tells the parent, or the person down on their luck, than if we let it go — the child's hand, or our dignity — all is lost, and we’ll never get it back. That’s why, if you even bot...

A singular, frightening truth begins to set in: we’re all just a few bad breaks away from falling through the cracks and disappearing. As society gets more distanced from human interaction by technolo...

There was something assured in the way he blended in with the surrounding mountains and lake. A sense of quiet deadliness was suggested by the low-slung gun belt, its holster tied down, and the Colt b...

Katie Wells stood looking out her window down to the street below. She could still feel the effects of the hard-rock miner getting his money's worth in every way he could. Angry that he could not affo...

Try as he did at such times, his thoughts would inevitably turn to the pretty girl named Annie. Tony was always able to sense when the cowboy's deep longing for the girl was at its worst, and nudged h...

She ran her finger along the smooth book cover affectionately, finding comfort in the beautiful words she knew were within. She was privy to love's secrets, and its depth and breadth in a way so few i...