Top 90 Bobby Underwood Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “There are only really two kinds of people in the world; those who love small towns, and those who hate them.”

— Bobby Underwood

2. “For death is a spider’s web, and once caught within its silky strands, our only hope of escape is to kill the spider.”

— Bobby Underwood

3. “I wasn’t among the fortunate to have seen sexy Brigitte Bardot sunbathing topless along Spain’s magnificent Costa del Sol way back when, but I could not imagine it being more breathtakingly impactful on a man than was my first glimpse of Alisha Fontaine.”

— Bobby Underwood

4. “Another tear rolled slowly down her cheek, like liquid pain escaping from her broken heart.”

— Bobby Underwood

5. “Sort of like the Skipper in Gilligan’s Island if Alan Hale, Jr. had been about fifteen pounds lighter and had sported dark, wavy hair. He even wore one of those white caps like him.”

— Bobby Underwood

6. “For her beauty is a velvet sea, its depths too great for man to fathom, and her love the whirlpool in which he spirals downward, ever downward, towards heaven.”

— Bobby Underwood

7. “Wyn could never understand why men expected to do the most dangerous work there was, the maintaining of law and order, were paid the least. People expected things to be kept peaceful, but when it came time to pay someone for doing that job, they balked.”

— Bobby Underwood

8. “For months afterward I was numb, almost paralyzed from the shock. I was some emotionless automaton, speaking and answering questions and working, never feeling. My heart was empty.”

— Bobby Underwood

9. “That made her smile. She said in a rush, as though she’d been wanting to say it, “It’s funny how lonely you can be when you’re with a lot of people, isn’t it? And how lonely you can be when you’re all alone. Yet when it’s just one nice person, someone with whom you instantly feel like you’ve known forever, you’re not lonely anymore, because you’re two.”

— Bobby Underwood

10. “We lived in a me-first world obsessed with morally inconsequential celebrities of dubious motivations and shallow character. How or why these people had become famous, or why they would be emulated and their every word newsworthy, no one of common sense could explain. The world had seemingly gone mad, and anyone pointing this out was reviled and mocked.”

— Bobby Underwood

11. “But for those women too stubborn to accept their part in the failure, it would always be “his fault” for being a jerk, not theirs for being attracted to jerks. Anger would eventually turn to bitterness and before too long all men were jerks.”

— Bobby Underwood

12. “We were in those dark early days of the war at the time, and the outcome was very much in question. Lake’s appearance at the event was a morale booster for civilians and servicemen alike. She was standing behind a microphone that sat on a table draped in the American flag.”

— Bobby Underwood

13. “But that was over there, in Greece. This was Mykonos, a seaside sanctuary so timeless that I half expected to glimpse Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings walking along the dock as we disembarked from the ferry.”

— Bobby Underwood

14. “The stars were out and bright, and the moon was close to full. There were no UFOs hovering over the trailer or anywhere else that I could see. It might seem strange to be so nonchalant about it all, but you get used to the weird if you live in Crystal Falls.”

— Bobby Underwood

15. “The river in his dreams was changing course once more when a sound caused him to roll to his right and come up with his Colt, ready for trouble. His movement was quick, a blur in the darkness; he had known men who died from sleeping too sound. No man who’d fought in the war ever slept a deep sleep.”

— Bobby Underwood

16. “She didn’t have to say that it wasn’t our time, that a whole new world had opened up for her in Mexico. She didn’t have to say that she was just beginning her journey, while I was already weary from mine because of all those I’d lost along the way.” – The Sapphire Sea.”

— Bobby Underwood

17. “My mother had died giving birth to me, and no one seemed to know who my father was, so I had become a ward of the state. I had grown up in the orphanage, under the warm and caring tutelage of Aunt Betty and Aunt Gertie, my two mothers. We called them our aunts, but they were really more like mothers.”

— Bobby Underwood

18. “Her hair was sort of a non-color, not brown, not blonde, something in between. Likewise, her face was indistinguishable from a million others. Her eyes matched her hair; something between grey and brown, but neither. The definition of plain Jane. But there was something that almost screamed “nice” about her.”

— Bobby Underwood

19. “As such things have a tendency to do it got out of hand in the worst way, resulting in the rather gruesome death of Maggie Potter – no relation to Harry.”

— Bobby Underwood

20. “I’m one of the two people left on the planet who doesn’t own a cell phone and doesn’t want one.”

— Bobby Underwood

21. “It humbled me to be living out of my car by design, but the thought of living in a cardboard shelter in some alley, or sleeping on a park bench at night frightened me. We never realize how little separates each of us from the gutter until we’re up against it ourselves.”

— Bobby Underwood

22. “Ellen’s smile was like a lighthouse beacon, guiding me away from the war. There was something happening, and it felt natural, as though it was always going to happen, someday.”

— Bobby Underwood

23. “Despite the devastation and death around us, and the uncertain future which lie ahead, I could not remember ever being as happy as the moment I officially became Sarah’s Dad.”

— Bobby Underwood

24. “Puttin’ two slugs in some gumshoe in an alley behind the Whitman’s Chocolates place, now that ain’t their style at all. Murder, My Sweet’s what me and Louisa’s been callin’ it. You know, like that movie with that singer fella playing the detective? Because it was next to the chocolate place.” Henry laughed at his own joke. Everything about him was friendly. So friendly he could make light of murder.”

— Bobby Underwood

25. “They were kidding each other, a camaraderie which probably had its beginnings during the fight. It was like that sometimes.”

— Bobby Underwood

26. “Something about the bright sun shining down on a palm tree gauchely planted next to a dentist’s office gave the whole place an unreality, as though I was living on some movie studio backlot. Los Angeles was some Hollywood hack’s idea of what glamor looked like, that bore little resemblance to the real thing.”

— Bobby Underwood

27. “As each new generation becomes more distanced from human interaction by its all-consuming obsession with superfluous technology, our collective passion wanes a little more, making the cracks in each persons’ bridge wider, until it is easy to fall through the fractures and disappear forever.”

— Bobby Underwood

28. “The colder and more crass the world has become, the more it scoffs at love at first sight. Popular television shows which would have made your grandmother puke, blockbuster movies so banal, vulgar, unfunny and shallow that only the brain-dead could find enjoyment in them, and best-selling fiction featuring either graphic descriptions of brutal, stomach-churning violence, or sexual depravity that drew no lines, had become completely acceptable, even the norm in our desensitized society.”

— Bobby Underwood

29. “I liked the beat, too – Hollywood and the City of Angels. It had been a long time since any angels had appeared here, but enough of the old buildings and old stars still hung around to remind you of what she’d been once, in a world far, far away.”

— Bobby Underwood

30. “She sounds wonderful, and just what you need, someone to rescue and adore. And she needed someone who would truly believe she’s even more wonderful now than she was before. People who poo-poo sudden love do so simply because they are afraid to risk their own heart in such a manner. They dismiss that indefinable magic between two people who through some miracle we’ll never understand and shouldn’t try to, actually find each other in this crazy, godawful world.”

— Bobby Underwood

31. “Even with all Caroline had lost and forgotten, she knew a lot about archaeology and past civilizations. I often wondered if knowing all those things, only saddened her that she couldn’t remember the rest. Though she had made peace with her life, it wasn’t the first time I’d pondered whether deep down she might need a sense of normalcy that having a brick and mortar home would give her.”

— Bobby Underwood

32. “And then she started crying, tears which crawled slowly, silently down her cheeks, as though pain had finally found an avenue of escape.”

— Bobby Underwood

33. “I’d never had to kill anyone. Maybe I still hadn’t. What I’d killed wasn’t human, but I had learned something very valuable. Whoever they were, wherever they were from, and whatever they wanted here in Nautica City, they were not immortal. They could die, just like we could.”

— Bobby Underwood

34. “Even in this state, after what had been done to her, she was beautiful. Behind the pain in her eyes lived spring, if they hadn’t crushed it into a permanent winter.” – Night Run.”

— Bobby Underwood

35. “So I volunteered for the night run, sleeping by day like a vampire to avoid those reasonably happy people who had settled for less than heaven. I’d had the door shut on those soft, sensuous pearly gates one too many times, left to stand sheepishly on my little tarnished cloud as I watched someone else enter paradise with the one I worshipped. The heart can only take so much before it begins to hide in shame at its own foolishness.”

— Bobby Underwood

36. “I reached over and she fell into my arms. “You have me. You’ll always have me. We’ll live forever, you and me.” I heard her sniffle and then felt her laugh against my chest. She wrested herself gently from my arms.”

— Bobby Underwood

37. “Yeah, that’s it! There’s these gorgeous paintings on the arches. Now, they ain’t my cup o’ java, mind ya, but it’s gotta be high class, cause one them women’s topless, and ain’t nobody pays her no attention. That’s when you know it’s art,” Henry added, as though he was sharing some profound insight, “when you can make the gals naked and no one makes a fuss about it.”

— Bobby Underwood

38. “It seemed her radar for picking the good ones was defective from the factory. It wasn’t the kind of thing you could just return and swap for another one, either. Defective or not, she was stuck with it.”

— Bobby Underwood

39. “A nice girl,” Jack whispered to himself in the shaded archway. “I thought they’d retired your version and threw away the blueprints.”

— Bobby Underwood

40. “When politicians continually campaign on saving something, that’s when you can be absolutely certain of its demise.”

— Bobby Underwood

41. “Jeanette smiled tenderly at Caroline and then at me. Laura reached out and placed her hand on Caroline’s cheek. She said, “There is no pain so great that God cannot heal it. Believe me, I know.”

— Bobby Underwood

42. “Things were always tight because the state only allowed for room and board and meals. I knew this money had come from sacrifice and love. I wiped my tears and whispered to my empty compartment, “I love you, too.”

— Bobby Underwood

43. “It heightened the tension while we listened to Suspense. Nearly all the girls leaned forward, wide-eyed in dread at the heroine’s predicament. She was trapped on a lonely country road, and a killer was on the loose!”

— Bobby Underwood

44. “Every story, no matter how different, was about her; except I got to write the happy ending I didn’t get to live.”

— Bobby Underwood

45. “Something about the way he had avoided looking directly at me despite his gracious manner made me think he could go from funny to dangerous in the blink of an eye.”

— Bobby Underwood

46. “It was raining so hard on that lonely stretch of rural Illinois backroad that I couldn’t see the painted white lines on the worn cracked asphalt.”

— Bobby Underwood

47. “The station was broadcasting Glenn Miller and his band from some ballroom in Pennsylvania. It was probably one of those “Music of Your Life” stations. Miller’s music still sounded fresh generations after it had first been heard. I could hear the tinkling of glasses between numbers as people chatted unaware something wonderful was passing, never to return. Miller himself would not return from WWII.”

— Bobby Underwood

48. “I felt myself being blown about in a different kind of storm, my landing much more uncertain than those delicate flakes falling from the sky.”

— Bobby Underwood

49. “For ships which pass only briefly on a moonlit sea leave no less of a wake departing than one anchored for many seasons.”

— Bobby Underwood

50. “Depending on whether you were a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty sort it was either very late at night or the wee hours of morning as I cast my line into the aquamarine waters of Cozumel and saw her head sticking up out of the low tide about twenty yards to my left.”

— Bobby Underwood