Mike

“There was a blackberry pie which the counterman claimed his wife made, and I ate two pieces. He had married well.”
― Robert B. Parker, Mortal Stakes

“A lot of women were like that. It was as if the gun were alive and might fire itself at any minute, killing everyone within range. I knew that guns untouched were inert. For me a gun was a way to equalize disparities in strength and size. Guns could protect people. Me included. If used badly they could be deadly. But that was true of automobiles and scotch whiskey.”
― Robert B. Parker, Shrink Rap

“I explained to the desk sergeant who I was, and he got so excited at one point that he glanced up at me for a moment before he went back to writing in a spiral notebook.”
― Robert B. Parker, Looking For Rachel Wallace

“She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God