62 Quotes by Robert Dugoni

Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate – what my mother took such great comfort in calling God’s will.

The miracle of Lourdes is acceptance, Sam. I asked God to help you to understand and to accept yourself.

Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.

Dan’s smell lingered on the pillow. He’d been a gentle and patient lover, his hands firm but his touch soft, just as she’d imagined. He’d given her time to relax, to free her mind until she was no longer thinking, just reacting to the motion of his body and the touch of his hands. When she’d climaxed, she’d clung to him, not wanting the feeling, or him, to leave her.

There comes a time in every man’s life,” he’d said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, “when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.

Me and the crickets’ve been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.

There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

None of us is getting out of here alive.