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The Professional (Spenser, #37) QUOTES

1 " The best moments in my life,” I said, “have come because I loved somebody.” “Yeah,” he said. “And the worst,” I said. "

― Robert B. Parker , The Professional (Spenser, #37)

2 " Belson came into the apartment with some crime-scene people and two homicide detectives.

“This guy,” Charlie said, and looked at his notebook, “Spenser. He was impersonating a police officer.”

Belson glanced at him. “We all thought that,” Belson said, “when he was a cop. "

― Robert B. Parker , The Professional (Spenser, #37)

3 " I sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I’d once cared about had worked in anadvertising agency over there. Sometimes, when the sun came at them from a different angle, I could see through the windows across the street and watch her moving about her office. Agency was gone now. Maybe the whole building was gone, replaced by a new one. It was hard to remember. "

― Robert B. Parker , The Professional (Spenser, #37)

4 " And rich older husbands,” I said. “And perhaps some evidence of promiscuity,” Susan said. “I mean, every young wife doesn’t cheat on her husband. Why "

― Robert B. Parker , The Professional (Spenser, #37)

5 " You ever read Machiavelli?” I said. “I imagine somebody mentioned him to me at Harvard.” “He argued that it is better to be feared than loved,” I said. "

― Robert B. Parker , The Professional (Spenser, #37)

6 " You can be smart and not know much,” I said. He nodded and drank some Coke. “Smartest broad I ever fucked,” he said. And that in itself must be some kind of fame. "

― Robert B. Parker , The Professional (Spenser, #37)