106 Quotes by Robert Crais

A woman I know gave me a build-it-yourself bird-feeder kit for Christmas, so I built it, and hung it from the eve of my roof high enough to keep the birds save from my cat. But the birds scratch the seed out of the feeder, then fly down to the deck and eat the seed. They know there’s a cat, but still they go down to pick at the seed. When you think about it, people are often like this, too.

It’s easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn’t know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike’s arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it’s simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I’m a big brown mouse, I go marching through the house, and I’m not afraid of anything! I.

A man with friends is the wealthiest man in the world.

Patrol dogs and Military Working Dogs were trained to protect their handlers. If the handler was attacked, and unconscious, or fighting for his or her life, the dog had to know what to do without being told. As Leland said, “These animals aren’t robots, goddamnit! They think! You train her up right, this beautiful dog will watch your back better than a squad of goddamned Marines!

There isn’t so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it’s offered.