Emily

“Suze,” I said, “I’m a middle-aged man.” “I know,” Susan said. “I see it as a challenge.” We went into the bedroom and lay close in the bed, sipping the champagne and watching the late movie in the air-conditioned darkness. Life may be flawed but sometimes things are just right. The late movie was The Magnificent Seven. When Steve McQueen looked at Eli Wallach and said, “We deal in lead, friend,” I said it along with him.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“Did William Powell take Myrna Loy to a Dunkin’ Donut shop?” “He didn’t know enough,” I said. I raised my coffee cup toward her.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“I have never seen any. He’s as good as anyone I ever saw at what he does. But he never seems happy or sad or frightened or elated. He never, in the twenty-some years I’ve known him, here and there, has shown any sign of love or compassion. He’s never been nervous. He’s never been mad.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“She laughed in the darkness. “Of course it is,” she said. “That’s the story of your life. What doesn’t matter. It’s how you look when you do it.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat