146 Quotes by Robert B. Parker

The thing about monsters is, you want to kill them until you meet them, and when you meet them they don’t seem monstrous, and killing them begins to seem unkind.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we’d stay right even.

I’m entirely fascinated with you,” I said. “And what you are is a result of what you were, including the other men.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Even in her cap and gown Susan looked like a sunrise, extravagant and full of promise. Wherever she went things seemed, as they always did, to organize around her.

There stirred behind her face a sense of life and purpose and mirth and caring that made her seem to be in motion even as she was still. There was a kind of rhythm to her, even in motionless repose. I said, “Energy contained by grace, maybe.

But if I were a man,” she said, “I imagine you wouldn’t let me say it.” “No,” I said. “If I didn’t need your help, I wouldn’t let you say it.

Everything was elegant and cool, including Frederics, who was slicker than the path to hell.

The best moments in my life,” I said, “have come because I loved somebody.” “Yeah,” he said. “And the worst,” I said.