Bobby Underwood Quotes

The smell of Jasmine was in the sea air. Any other day I would have adhered to the Victory Speed but I couldn't wait to reach the village. I smiled to myself, thinking what a stir it would cause when...

They have public service announcements about cancer, heart disease, every malady imaginable. But no one ever warns you about the world’s greatest killer — Hope.

We sat next to each other. The sound of the locomotive and the smell of the sea drifted in through the open window. It did not go unnoticed by either of us that we were alone and without recent memory...

Wyn could never be afraid of death, because he had already died, that night, so long ago.

You see, here’s my problem. You got a look. I saw that look on a lot of guys during the war. A lot of ‘em had trouble after they came back. But they weren’t killers, not this kind anyway. So, I’ll lis...

A doll! I smiled. Maybe someone else would have thought him crude, but I saw beneath his rough exterior. He was sweet. And he’d called me a doll, like in the pulp magazines.

A man’s nothing in this cockeyed world but his word, especially a guy like me, with no job and no prospects. I was a hitchhiker who’d thumbed his last ride. But I had to keep my word to Kathy, even if...

And that’s why I fell in love with you so quickly. Your heart was the one I’d always been looking for. It’s almost instinctive, loving you. As though I was born to.

Apache trick, nodded Fox. Aw hell! Jace remarked, Accordin' to you, everything smart anybody does they learned from fightin' Apaches! We greatest fighters and trackers.

As Jones was leaving, he turned back and commented, Maybe now you won’t write the cops so dumb on your next show. He winked as he shut the door, having the last word after saving our skins.

Don’t come out from under unless you hear my voice. Understand?Karen’s eyes were full of tears but she nodded and slid beneath the Gremlin. I’d purchased it from some guy who’d been using it as a dune...

For the lonely and unloved, there is no greater friend than the night, and the anonymity it offers.

Halfway back to the Keys on Seven Mile Bridge, as day lost its eternal struggle against night, someone in Miami called in to the radio station I was listening to, and requested Gloria Estefan’s Si Voy...

How do I begin to tell you about Dana and all that she meant to my life? A writer can describe spring in technical terms; the scent of cherry blossoms awakening from their long winter's sleep; the fir...

I could not imagine a divine hand was involved, but perhaps Frank Lassiter had done enough evil that I was just the instrument being used to give him a shove off this mortal coil — because he wasn’t s...

I got him in the ankle, Kelly clarified. She added, The gun was a gift from daddy. He says you never know who you'll run into and it's better to have protection. Jeff tried to look respectful at the m...

I'm glad you're along, Juanita. We may need you to translate. I forget to tell, Johnny. My Spanish not so good. I from Tijuana. We all looked at her in disbelief and then the laughter started. This wa...

In his opinion they were hypocrites who conveniently forgot their peaceful town was only peaceful because someone with a gun had tamed it, and someone with a gun kept it that way.

Neither Amy nor her father seemed to think it the least bit worrisome that they knew nothing about me, really. They had both made their assessments on the spot and decided in my favor. It was hearteni...

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 mov...