Top 90 Robert Dugoni Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Me and the crickets’ve been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.”

— Robert Dugoni

52. “If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you’re going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.”

— Robert Dugoni

53. “Sunnie could talk to a dead body for an hour before she’d notice the person wasn’t breathing, and likely finish her story even after she had.”

— Robert Dugoni

54. “Tracy smiled. “Do you remember the story?” “Kimi? It was my story.” “What do you remember?” “A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.” “How well did you know her?” “Everyone knew Kimi. She was a track star. In the fall she ran cross-country, and in the spring she ran the high hurdles and the one hundred – back then it was still called the hundred-yard dash. She finished second in the state her junior year and was the odds-on favorite to win both races senior year.”

— Robert Dugoni

55. “Sorry I’m late. Whoever outlawed drinking and driving never drove through Tacoma traffic.”

— Robert Dugoni

56. “Never take anything that doesn’t belong to you or that you haven’t earned,” he said, sliding into the car. “You never know who you’re stealing from, and what that money means to them.”

— Robert Dugoni

57. “Then perhaps you should consider that Samuel’s presence might very well be a perfect opportunity to put into practice some of the principles to which this school, and this parish, give lip service – to love one another and to display compassion to those who are different.”

— Robert Dugoni

58. “She did not come to my dreams and memories as a sweet recollection; she brought back the shame and humiliation I’d felt when I realized, standing in her kitchen, that love can be faked and, therefore, never fully trusted.”

— Robert Dugoni

59. “I had concluded that I no longer shared her faith in a God who controlled the universe like a puppet master pulling and tugging strings and making us all dance. Our lives, I believed, were more like billiard balls on a pool table, ricocheting randomly with the impact of the cue ball. To believe otherwise was to believe that a God to whom my mother had devoted her life had responded by striking down her husband and causing her so much pain. I couldn’t accept that.”

— Robert Dugoni

60. “Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil,” Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. “We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!” “You want to call me back after you call and get permission?” “You know it, brother.”

— Robert Dugoni

61. “We believe we choose the paths we take when we come to those forks in our lives – the friends we make, the careers we undertake, the spouses we marry. But we don’t.”

— Robert Dugoni

62. “What was better, after all, than being in love with your best friend?”

— Robert Dugoni

63. “I’d never thought of Ernie as black. He was just my best friend.”

— Robert Dugoni

64. “Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.”

— Robert Dugoni

65. “Dan’s smell lingered on the pillow. He’d been a gentle and patient lover, his hands firm but his touch soft, just as she’d imagined. He’d given her time to relax, to free her mind until she was no longer thinking, just reacting to the motion of his body and the touch of his hands. When she’d climaxed, she’d clung to him, not wanting the feeling, or him, to leave her.”

— Robert Dugoni

66. “We die and everything goes on, the same as before.”

— Robert Dugoni

67. “Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing.”

— Robert Dugoni

68. “Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow.”

— Robert Dugoni

69. “Because William taught me that you can’t expect to be treated as a man if you act like a child, and that every life is precious and can be lost in an instant of stupidity or bad luck. He taught me not to waste the opportunities I had, because so many young men never had a chance at them, never had the chance to grow old.”

— Robert Dugoni

70. “That’s not to say she wasn’t sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept, and my mother was struggling to accept that her boy had finished high school and would be leaving home in just a few short months.”

— Robert Dugoni

71. “To every man and woman who wears a uniform, carries a badge, and spends their days and nights working in the criminal justice system to keep the rest of us safe. We are often too quick to criticize and too slow to say thank you.”

— Robert Dugoni

72. “Dying is hardest on the living.”

— Robert Dugoni

73. “I had watched Grandma O’Malley, a proud and simple woman, shrink and wrinkle and turn white over the years. But we expect that of our grandparents. Not our parents. For some reason, we think our parents will never grow old, perhaps because when they do, we are forced to acknowledge that we will one day grow old, and we face our own mortality.”

— Robert Dugoni

74. “We try too hard to figure out why these guys kill when it’s really not possible to identify all of the factors that cause an individual to become a serial murderer. Think of the billions of things that have gone into developing who you are. I’m not just talking genetics and upbringing – think of all the things you’ve experienced every day of your life that have shaped who you are. That’s why there’s no template for these guys.”

— Robert Dugoni

75. “When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don’t sweat the other five percent.”

— Robert Dugoni

76. “Never be afraid to tell the truth, Sam. Not to the people who love you.”

— Robert Dugoni

77. “It’s easier to live with failure than with regret.”

— Robert Dugoni

78. “There’s a can of cat food and a spoon on the floor somewhere. Take it out back and bang on it. My cat’s still out there.”

— Robert Dugoni

79. “A disorganized killer is much more impulsive and haphazard. Disorganized killers make mistakes, leave fingerprints, fail to keep from being seen. Organized killers consider murder to be an art that they are trying to perfect. They don’t make mistakes.”

— Robert Dugoni

80. “I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you’re trying to fit in.”

— Robert Dugoni

81. “She’d always been quick to anger, a bad trait when accompanied by a sharp tongue that cut before she could curtail it.”

— Robert Dugoni

82. “What bothers you most, the fact that I beat your score on the shooting range, or that I broke your nose and kneed you in the nuts?”

— Robert Dugoni

83. “Tracy assessed Shirley Berkman to be midfifties trying to look midthirties.”

— Robert Dugoni

84. “Being a parent meant exposing a part of your heart to incredible joy and happiness, but also to the possibility of unspeakable despair and agony.”

— Robert Dugoni

85. “You pick women who aren’t good enough, and then you rationalize how they treat you rather than just telling them they aren’t good enough for you.”

— Robert Dugoni

86. “If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I’m missing.”

— Robert Dugoni

87. “It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying; it’s a reminder to us all that we’re human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that’s a beautiful thing.”

— Robert Dugoni

88. “Well, at least now you admit you did it on purpose.” “A target that small, it had to be on purpose or I would have missed.” Nolasco dropped the smirk. “You won’t last six months in burglary.” “I agree,” she said. “I told you six years ago. I intend to take your job.” THE END.”

— Robert Dugoni

89. “That’s like complaining you’re getting a gut, so you go on an all-Twinkie diet.”

— Robert Dugoni

90. “You’re a woman, Katie. You don’t need any other reason for them to think you’re incompetent.”

— Robert Dugoni

91. “Don’t know. Like I said, she wouldn’t say much. He was her Prince Charming.” “Sounds more like the toad,” Kins said. “That’s an insult to toads.”

— Robert Dugoni

92. “Come the fall, I would be leaving for college and my mother would lose her little boy, and I would lose the person who had always been there for me, my fiercest advocate since the day I’d been born.”

— Robert Dugoni

93. “It’s like anything you do; if you want to do it well, you have to work at it.”

— Robert Dugoni

94. “My death would be noted with nothing more than a headstone bearing the dates of my birth and my death to let the world know I had been here.”

— Robert Dugoni