Richard Castle > Quotes

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.”
― Richard Castle

“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.”
― Richard Castle

“Go ahead. Rip my bodice.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“Because if you don't even believe in the possibility of magic you will never ever find it.”
― Richard Castle

“There's always a story.”
― Richard Castle

“People change when you're not looking.”
― Richard Castle

“Most people come up against a wall they give up, not you. You don't let go, you don't back down...it's what makes you extraordinary." Castle to Beckett”
― Richard Castle

“I loves me my Google”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“We all try. And try as we might to control things, sometimes bad things get in and it's not our fault.”
― Richard Castle, Heat Wave

“Nikki paid attention to nags because they were the voices God gave to clues.”
― Richard Castle, Heat Wave

“Or maybe go sci-fi. You sorta look like that guy who roamed outer space everybody's so crazy about."

"Malcolm Reynolds?" asked Rook.”
― Richard Castle

“You’re like my wife.”
“Because I’m not sleeping with you either?”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“Newsflash she already has body image issues. 
It's an intrinsic part of being a woman. Every woman in the world has some part of herself that she absolutely hates. 
Her hands are too small, her feet are too big, her hair is too straight, too curly, her ears stick out, her bums too flat, her nose is too big and, you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. 
What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup it just... It, it hides the flaws we think we have. 
They make us look beautiful to ourselves. 
That's what makes us look beautiful to others.

Used to be all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.

And we spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.”
― Richard Castle

“Best autopsy ever," said Rook. "I think I just peed myself a little. Seriously, I did.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“Anything is possible."
"You really believe that?"
"It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.”
― Richard Castle

“It’s not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It’s really about trust.”
— Jameson Rook, Heat Rises”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“Behind every picture hides the true story. You just have to be willing to look.”
― Richard Castle, Heat Wave

“When you say things like that to me, I call it a Kardashian. Know why? Because I'm looking for the but.”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“Retaliation is not the answer. You're going to have to deal with mean backstabbing girls your whole life, you need to learn to be smart enough to rise above, okay?

Did you kick her ass? Good girl!”
― Richard Castle

“I’m trying to figure the rules. This isn’t yin and yang, it’s more like yin and yank. The past few days I’ve been going, OK, she doesn’t mix the... romance so well with the single-mindedness of the police work. So it gets me wondering, Is the solution for me to give up our working relationship? Stop my magazine research so we can-?”
Nikki grabbed him into a deep kiss. Then she pulled away and said, “Will you shut up?”
― Richard Castle, Heat Wave

“...but she shook the detective off and her moan revved up into a full-blown 1950's horror film shriek.”
― Richard Castle, Heat Wave

“I've been thinking about how ugly gossip is. How it victimizes people, but how as much as we say we hate it, we still feed on it like it was crack.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“I want to apologize to you, Nikki. Not just, ‘hey, sorry,’ but really. Apologize.” He paused, either to let her absorb it or to find his way, then he went on, “This is all still new to both of us. You and I came to each other with full lives, past baggage, careers, the works. Both of us. And this trip of mine, this was the first time since we got together that you’re seeing what my real work is like. I have the advantage of having gone on ride-along, so you—I get your life, inside and out. Me, I’m an investigative journalist. If I’m doing it right, I’m spending big stretches of time in places nobody else has the balls to go and under conditions most reporters wouldn’t put up with. That explains why I fell off the radar on my story. I told you I might before I left. But it’s no excuse for not calling you when I got in the clear. The only explanation I can give may sound flimsy, but it’s the truth. When I come off assignment, I have a routine. I sleep like the dead and write like the devil, in seclusion. It’s the way I’ve always done it. For years. But now—I realize something’s different now. I’m not the only one involved.
“Now, if I could take back the past twenty-four hours, I would, but I can’t. What I can do, though, is say when I look at you now and see the hurt in you—the hurt I caused by being insensitive—I see pain I never want to bring to you again.” He let that sit there, then said, “Nikki, I apologize. I was wrong. And I am sorry.”
― Richard Castle

“Remember what one of our philosophers once said, 'In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.”
― Richard Castle, Frozen Heat

“It was always the same for her when she arrived to meet the body. After she unbuckled her seat belt, after she pulled a stick pen from the rubber band on the sun visor, after her long fingers brushed her hip to feel the comfort of her service piece, what she always did was pause. Not long. Just the length of a slow deep breath. That's all it took for her to remember the one thing she will never forget. Another body waited. She drew the breath. And when she could feel the raw edges of the hole that had been blown in her life, Detective Nikki Heat was ready. She opened the car door and went to work . . . Heat could have made it easier on herself by parking closer, but this was another of her rituals: the walk up. Every crime scene was a flavor of chaos, and these two hundred feet afforded the detective her only chance to fill the clean slate with her own impressions.”
― Richard Castle