“I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“It’s not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It’s really about trust.”
— Jameson Rook, Heat Rises”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“When you say things like that to me, I call it a Kardashian. Know why? Because I'm looking for the but.”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“Know why transparency's a beautiful thing? Transparency means no shame.”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“Rook asked, "Did you really stab him with an icicle?"
When she nodded, he said, "Please tell me you said FREEZE."
Richard Castle-- Heat Rises”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“Without noticing it, Heat had begun seeing herself as working for her Captain and lost sight of her guiding principle, that she worked for the victim.”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“Especially that. And pull stills of everyone”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“until years later when Captain Montrose canvassed the old crime”
― Richard Castle, quote from Heat Rises
“Pain is good. Heartache is good. These things will provide you with knowledge that will help you grow and deal with future struggles. To waste a painful moment and let emption overwhelm you so much that you gain absolutely no insight is to get hurt inefficiently.”
― Lilly Singh, quote from How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
“You’re my favorite way to pass the time. But time stands still when you’re on my mind.”
― Kasie West, quote from P.S. I Like You
“I can no longer take war or promotion or big income or a large house seriously. I reject empire and Vietnam and placing a man on the moon. I deny time payments and looking like the girl next door and church weddings and a great deal more. If you want to blame such rejection on grass, you can do so. I charge it to awakening.”
― James A. Michener, quote from The Drifters
“His body was tubby but his arms apparently couldn’t understand that, for they were long and scrawny. From his brow to an inch below his eyes, his nose turned up; from there on, down. His short upper lip slanted sharply toward his tonsils, which had the effect of making his chinlessness positively jut.
(...)
The bartender was fascinated by the way the teardrops proceeded down Biddiver’s amazing nose. One drop would dash almost halfway, and then hesitate, daunted by the hump. Then it would be joined by another teardrop, and the two, merging, would surmount the obstacle and slip down to hang glittering over the disappearing lip until a sob came along to shake them off.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, quote from The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God
“When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.”
― Dennis Lehane, quote from Live by Night
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