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Promised Land (Spenser, #4) QUOTES

Promised Land (Spenser, #4) QUOTES

1 " I try to be honorable. I know that's embarrassing to hear. It's embarrassing to say. But I believe most of the nonsense that Thoreau was preaching. And I have spent a long time working on getting myself to where I could do it. Where I could live life largely on my own terms. "

― Robert B. Parker , Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

2 " ...What is it," Pam Shepard said, "about a cluster of skyscrapers in the distance that makes you feel...What?...Romantic? Melancholy? Excited? Excited probably."
"Promise," I said.
"Of what?"
"Of everything," I said. "From a distance they promise everything, whatever you're after. They look clean and permanent against the sky like that. Up close you notice dog litter around the foundations."
"Are you saying it's not real? The look of skyscapers from a distance."
"No. It's real enough, I think. But so is the dog litter and if you spend all your time looking at the spires you're going to step in it."
"Into each life some shit must fall?"
"Ah," I said, "you put it so much more gracefully than I. "

― Robert B. Parker , Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

3 " before she disappeared. "

― Robert B. Parker , Promised Land (Spenser, #4)