Top 90 Bobby Underwood Quotes (2024 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. “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

3. “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

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. “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

7. “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

8. “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

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. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “For it is by God’s design that the heart clings to the small but wonderful moments in life, or else the abundance of darkness in the world would become paramount, and eclipse the good.”

— Bobby Underwood

25. “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

26. “I wanna show the girls how to use them. In case they get the drop and take away our guns. They probably won’t search the girls.” Juanita said, “I Chihuahua! You want us carry those things?” “And use them if you have to.” Susan looked up and said, “I Chihuahua!” Rick almost spit out his food he started laughing so hard.”

— Bobby Underwood

27. “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

28. “Dead men were always a reminder that your own time would come one day.”

— Bobby Underwood

29. “Jennifer and Mark were a reminder that they weren’t all a lost cause. It was just a shame they were in such a minority group. Maybe they could start a movement: Decent People’s Lives Matter. It could be all inclusive, even accept cops in their charter. Probably wouldn’t get any traction with the PC crowd, though. Not the “right” kind of people, or the “right” kind of cause.”

— Bobby Underwood

30. “I also suspected that lo romantico might be involved as well. Americans so easily fall in love.”

— Bobby Underwood

31. “With more free time on my hands than a car salesman in Amish country, I decided to make the most of it and take Penny to lunch.”

— Bobby Underwood

32. “This room in the heart is a necessary protection and must be guarded like no other. It must be kept hidden from everyone, for without it we have no refuge from grief over love lost, or the terrible ache of unrequited love. It is a room built into every heart by God.”

— Bobby Underwood

33. “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

34. “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

35. “I was a blackboard the teacher had erased after class, and I had no cheat notes written on my arm to help me pass the test.”

— Bobby Underwood

36. “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

37. “I turned my head and saw the big lamps, and I knew it was Violet Atwater. When I turned back around Mack had slowed because of the fog. Through the mist I couldn’t see Greyson Manor any longer. Violet almost caught up to us in her big Packard and then she was enveloped in the fog as well. It was the change in the air I noticed first. Fresh and clean, with something sweet like honeysuckle or jasmine drifting on the evening breeze. Mack smelled it too, because he sniffed and glanced over at me.”

— Bobby Underwood

38. “It isn’t like in books where the detective gets conked on the head, wakes up and keeps going another 48 hours straight. Exhaustion dulls the senses, impairs the brain and slows down the reflexes. Reaction time in business like this can be the difference between living and dying.”

— Bobby Underwood

39. “So, where to, Kitty Foyle?”

— Bobby Underwood

40. “People think cops always know what they’re doing, but a lot of times it’s just poking around in the dark till you get a reaction and figure it out from there.”

— Bobby Underwood

41. “But her dad had always told them guns weren’t evil, just some of the men who used them.”

— Bobby Underwood

42. “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

43. “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

44. “It was such a beautiful sentiment, so pure in its innocence, so uncaring of the vulnerableness. A great love for Sarah swept over me for which, if pressed, I would never have been able to justify. But maybe that’s how love should be. Perhaps love is a magic between two people which should never be questioned, whether it happens in a heartbeat, or over time. Because to question it is to destroy its magic.”

— Bobby Underwood

45. “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

46. “Some places, such as Paris, have a magic best experienced for brief periods so the romantic feeling doesn’t become tainted by a day to day reality. But Mykonos was different in that respect. Mykonos made you long for the restful, happy day to day reality of life on the Greek island, and it was the brief visits that tortured the soul. Paris was a romantic respite from life, Mykonos was life itself, and living. I understood why Susan had made a home for herself on Mykonos.”

— Bobby Underwood

47. “I packed up the office files, then swung by the apartment to pay up my rent and let the sour-faced old bat who collected it know I was moving out. She didn’t seem heartbroken.”

— Bobby Underwood

48. “All families were like that, with their private damage they kept among themselves, ghosts they lived with that only other family members knew about.”

— Bobby Underwood

49. “I’d sought out these lonely roads because I was hurt and lonely, and that’s what the hurt and lonely do; seek out a place far from people, far from the happiness which is painfully just out of their reach. For those rejected by love, chewed up by romance and spit out like unwanted seeds in a flavorful melon, the night is a sanctuary, a trusted friend. The darkness comforted you, placed an unseen arm around your shoulder so you wouldn’t be alone in your misery.”

— Bobby Underwood

50. “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