62 Quotes by Robert Dugoni

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren’t going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We’d be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we’d become, or live with regret and disappointment.

We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.

I realized Ernie was my guardian angel and had been since that first day on the playground.

I’d never thought of Ernie as black. He was just my best friend.

But to my mother – I suspect to all mothers – their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.

Fall was slipping quietly into winter.

Sunnie could talk to a dead body for an hour before she’d notice the person wasn’t breathing, and likely finish her story even after she had.

It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

Tracy smiled. “Do you remember the story?” “Kimi? It was my story.” “What do you remember?” “A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.” “How well did you know her?” “Everyone knew Kimi. She was a track star. In the fall she ran cross-country, and in the spring she ran the high hurdles and the one hundred – back then it was still called the hundred-yard dash. She finished second in the state her junior year and was the odds-on favorite to win both races senior year.