Top 90 Bobby Underwood Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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. “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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “So, where to, Kitty Foyle?”

— Bobby Underwood

23. “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

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

— Bobby Underwood

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

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

— Bobby Underwood

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Manners hadn’t been whistling Dixie about the disturbances in the cottage, however. He seemed like a stand-up guy, even good enough to warn me about the house before I’d forked over the cash. He was probably right about Johnny, and probably Deanna too, at least up to the point where she’d jumped. Boy was he in for a shock!”

— Bobby Underwood

38. “When Candida blew, she’d really blew, so the falling debris had mostly been too small to do any real damage to the rest of the boats in the marina. Other than a few minor cuts and bruises suffered by those folks stupid enough to look up at the sky and wait for it to rain wood and fiberglass and aluminum down on them rather than run for cover, no one had been hurt; no one ever said being able to afford a boat and marina fees made a person smart.”

— Bobby Underwood

39. “I hadn’t seen Krista Wallace for several years and the emotions it stirred when I did set eyes on her again surprised me. We had been a summer fling on the beaches of Ecuador, a brief yet sweet encounter before my intoxicating affair with Josselyn began. Perhaps the intensity of the latter had unfairly overshadowed the former.”

— Bobby Underwood

40. “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

41. “The human heart buries memories of love, files them away somewhere when they don’t work out, because it hurts too much to remember feelings that you have little hope of recapturing. The truth is, you never recapture those exact feelings anyway, because love is different every time you feel it. But the head knows this, not the heart. So the heart buries them deep.”

— Bobby Underwood

42. “I held her in my arms and rocked her back and forth. I cried until I threw up. Then I went back to rocking my darling again, weeping beneath the early morning Mexican sun.”

— Bobby Underwood

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

— Bobby Underwood

44. “Finally he turned to me, his eyes shifting from compassion to business in a heartbeat. “You didn’t bring me out here for that, you must need something. Who exactly are you, and how are you playing this?”

— Bobby Underwood

45. “Her faith in him to protect her warmed his heart on one hand, and worried him on the other; how could he protect any of them from what he could not see, much less explain?”

— Bobby Underwood

46. “It would be easy to say that I skipped Chicago for Miami after the war ended because Pete and I were such good pals and I’d had such a great time there on leave. But in truth I decided to stay on in Miami because of Veronica Lake.”

— Bobby Underwood

47. “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

48. “Like all romantics, I wanted the kind of love that didn’t exist in this world, at least not in my time. It had once upon a time, but it had faded like the final scene of a black and white movie long ago, never to return.”

— Bobby Underwood

49. “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

50. “Romantic love, a soulmate, was a concept too old-fashioned for the modern world. It was a concept beyond the capacity of hearts hardened so thoroughly that armor-piercing bullets could no longer penetrate them.”

— Bobby Underwood