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Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34) QUOTES

Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34) QUOTES

1 " Tony’s patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. “Sho ’nuff,” he said. "

― Robert B. Parker , Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34)

2 " Corsetti pulled up and parked on 52nd Street in front of an apartment near the river. He put the cop light on top of the cruiser.
“Keep the fucking traffic buzzards from hauling it off to the tow lot,” he said. "

― Robert B. Parker , Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34)

3 " We had our own sort of divorce back a while,” I said.
“Yes.”
“I was pretty crazy, I think.”
“Yes,” Susan said.
“You were pretty crazy,” I said.
“Yes,” she said. “I was.”
“And we leapt tall buildings at a single bound.”
“We were probably leaping the wrong ones,” Susan said, “in those days.”
“Maybe,” I said. “But maybe those days helped us to leap the right ones now, and more gracefully. "

― Robert B. Parker , Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34)

4 " Ollie do any of his own work?” “Mostly he runs things. "

― Robert B. Parker , Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34)

5 " There were circles where people knew me better. Of course, they weren’t circles anyone wanted to move in. "

― Robert B. Parker , Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34)

6 " Condoize them for me, and I’d have income for "

― Robert B. Parker , Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, #34)