Top 90 Bobby Underwood Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “Bad things seem to happen when you’re around, don’t they, Halliday?”

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55. “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

56. “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

57. “We passed close to the docked cruise ships, Temptation and Fascination. Cruise ships are never named Discontent or Exasperation.”

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58. “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

59. “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?”

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60. “Old enough to vote, too stupid to realize the consequences.”

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61. “Without being able to explain how I knew, having no more experience than I had in such matters, I instinctively realized that she was extraordinarily beautiful. Yet hers was the kind of beauty that wouldn’t always gets noticed. Someone passing her on the street probably would never give her a second look. It was when you focused on her for a moment or two that you realized how lovely she was.”

— Bobby Underwood

62. “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

63. “Wyn saw the freshly laid railroad tracks, and spotted the spires of San Felipe with its white crosses pointing toward God’s home, and knew he’d finally reached Albuquerque. He glanced behind him at the dead men tied to the horses and sighed. When he turned back around in the saddle, the sight of the church shamed him. Wyn had only brought death here, and doubted these men were bound for where the crosses pointed...”

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

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65. “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

66. “Wyn could never be afraid of death, because he had already died, that night, so long ago.”

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67. “I was disappointed and relieved at the same time; disappointed because I’d wanted to meet Eddie face to face, get a bead on how all the pieces I had so far tied together; relieved because if Eddie only wanted to give me a message, we weren’t at the shooting stage yet. An incurable case of lead poisoning might come later.”

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68. “In his opinion they were hypocrites who conveniently forgot their peaceful town was only peaceful because someone with a gun had tamed it, and someone with a gun kept it that way.”

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69. “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

70. “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.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “No one knows more about regret than an old drunk, and no old drunk knew more about living with it than Harry.”

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

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80. “I took the photos with me and heard Lucija making the call. As I closed the door behind me, I caught the scent of death from the patio, carried on the breeze moving the branches of the olive trees.”

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81. “What happened on that tiny island off the coast of Cuba called Flowering Cay at times seems like a half-remembered dream, one of those groggy remembrances that you’re never quite certain you didn’t just imagine. Other times I can recall it with such clarity it is as if it happened yesterday. Sitting in front of my typewriter as the palms sway gently at the urging of the trade winds, I almost wish I could forget everything. But then I think of Faith.”

— Bobby Underwood

82. “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

83. “So, where to, Kitty Foyle?”

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84. “The tattoo craze had begun with the young and now it was simply part of a culture which got less substantive day-by-day. They wanted to be different, unique, differentiating themselves from each other, and in doing so had all become the same.”

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85. “I wondered not for the first time what it was about Spanish churches that gave them a reverence often lacking in others. Was it because those who attended them were usually poor, and more reliant on faith to see them through? Was it the symbols which gave parishioners a reminder of faith rewarded?”

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

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

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88. “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.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “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?”

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91. “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.”

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92. “He nodded. “And did not take off from any official airport.” The more formal English, the did nots and could nots rather than didn’t and can’t, were hallmarks of those using English as their second or third language.”

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93. “Neither Amy nor her father seemed to think it the least bit worrisome that they knew nothing about me, really. They had both made their assessments on the spot and decided in my favor. It was heartening, and different from the city I’d left behind.”

— Bobby Underwood