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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ee262c | Jerry and I stood outside Woolworth listening to young, bundled-up Christmas carolers down the street. They were going from store to store sharing the spirit of the season. On top of the Woolworth Co. building, a lighted Christmas tree stood tall and beautiful. A light dusting of snow lined the sidewalks and busy streets as people rushed happily about doing their Christmas shopping. Jerry and I had only hours ago been married, so for us the.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 90d4254 | I could not imagine a divine hand was involved, but perhaps Frank Lassiter had done enough evil that I was just the instrument being used to give him a shove off this mortal coil -- because he wasn't shuffling off fast enough on his own. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| aadf47d | Lamont Chandler." Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" I laughed and she couldn't help but join me. There was something restful and pure in her laughter, like a Christmas carol. "My grandfather used to work at a radio station where they broadcast The Shadow," I explained. "He'd take my dad when he was a kid. Dad even met Bill Johnstone once. Anyway, m.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 314649f | That's the way it is in Miami. There are good guys and bad guys and sometimes the twain do meet. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5ef065a | They have public service announcements about cancer, heart disease, every malady imaginable. But no one ever warns you about the world's greatest killer -- Hope. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3bf20a4 | For the lonely and unloved, there is no greater friend than the night, and the anonymity it offers. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| a1f0767 | And that's why I fell in love with you so quickly. Your heart was the one I'd always been looking for. It's almost instinctive, loving you. As though I was born to. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| bbdb29b | Tommy Dorsey's Opus One, had Moonlight Cocktails with Glenn Miller and his band, took a Sentimental Journey with Les Brown and Doris Day, and finally boarded a Slow Boat to China with Kay Kyser, Harry Rabbit and Gloria Wood. By the time a nostalgic two-hour-long segment replaying old radio shows like Suspense and Jack Benny, Dangerous Assignment and Rocky Jordan finished, I was feeling better. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 09db8ca | A man's nothing in this cockeyed world but his word, especially a guy like me, with no job and no prospects. I was a hitchhiker who'd thumbed his last ride. But I had to keep my word to Kathy, even if I had to fry for it. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 0e01dc3 | You see, here's my problem. You got a look. I saw that look on a lot of guys during the war. A lot of 'em had trouble after they came back. But they weren't killers, not this kind anyway. So, I'll listen, and then I'll tell you whether I'll do it or not. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| ae151a0 | I was an okay looking guy when I cleaned up, but I hadn't shaved in a couple of days, and my clothes were strictly bargain basement -- Salvation Army hand-me-downs. She was either the nicest girl in the entire world, or the loopiest | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b56c5cf | Having a gun nearby is something I'd got used to during the war, and I couldn't break the habit. I'd heard from a guy I'd served with who lived in Los Angeles now, that Audie Murphy slept with one under his pillow. I didn't have as many medals for my trouble as Audie had, but I slept with mine, too. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 7f00935 | It took a second to register, but even a schmuck like me sees a paper once in a while. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| cbedc92 | So you say. I gotta say, you've got a better imagination than most of the low-lifes who come through here. Too bad you didn't get to Hollywood and put some of it on paper. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5260b67 | Oh, right, just stroll on down to the car lot, big as you please. What'll I say I'm doing? He knows I can't afford a car." Karen started laughing again as she answered. "You could tell him you've lost all your marbles and thought you saw one roll that way." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| d67f385 | I wasn't sure when you'd be in so I thought you wouldn't mind me waiting here." I had the feeling he knew exactly when I was going to arrive. That he knew a lot of things he wasn't ever going to tell me." -- | Bobby Underwood | ||
| f886bd4 | When someone dies without ever having experienced the joy of it, never really had someone love them in their heart, it leaves...well an ache, an echo if you will. It's a void of regret and sadness that doesn't die with them. Because of that, they can't cross over. They would never be truly happy in heaven. They would be waiting forever for someone who would never come, because no one would die who ever adored them. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 451f918 | It was wonderful strolling hand-in-hand in an unfamiliar city, in a country that wasn't ours. Even if that city was Sydney. It lent us a special kind of privacy only those who have travelled understand. You are anonymous. A voyeur. It grants a certain freedom, and presents possibilities one would not imagine among those with whom they are tethered to by birth and nationality. It is like being in costume at a masquerade ball where no one wil.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| ddd1c85 | but what the mind understands and what the heart believes are not always in sync. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 495e257 | I pulled out some folded-over pictures of US Presidents. I knew how to talk to bellboys. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5eda0e1 | Even if we ran into Charlie Chan he'd only smile and give us some proverb. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 30c5886 | She ran her finger along the smooth book cover affectionately, finding comfort in the beautiful words she knew were within. She was privy to love's secrets, and its depth and breadth in a way so few in this life could fathom. She knew these things because she was truly alone in the world, and only those forced to live without love completely understood that a life without love is a life not truly lived. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 479e166 | We lived --or rather had lived --in a society which had come to view the father as almost superfluous. But people of common sense knew better. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| f4e227b | As Jones was leaving, he turned back and commented, "Maybe now you won't write the cops so dumb on your next show." He winked as he shut the door, having the last word after saving our skins." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| fb6e969 | When she smiled she got these wonderful little crinkles at the corners of her mouth, and there were faint traces of lines at the corners of her pretty eyes. They were beauty lines, the kind a woman starts to get when there's more to her than just being a girl. She made me think of the French Riviera, even though I'd never been to the French Riviera. At the edge of her laughter I could almost hear Mancini's Latin Snowfall playing. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 8f5f3a0 | Mary was stretched out on the lounge by the pool reading Agatha Christie's new book, Dumb Witness, which a friend had sent her from England. I was reading Erich Maria Remarque's sadly beautiful, Three Comrades. MGM had purchased it and were making a film adaptation starring Margaret Sullavan, who I happened to adore. We'd be here all week so I'd also brought Erle Stanley Gardner's new Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Dangerous Dowager. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b6ab9df | A doll! I smiled. Maybe someone else would have thought him crude, but I saw beneath his rough exterior. He was sweet. And he'd called me a doll, like in the pulp magazines. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 651b0e6 | What I remembered best, however, was a darkly sensual Ecuadorian girl as tender, hungry and insatiable as any I'd ever encountered. She was engaged to one of the Ecuadorian airport personnel but from the moment our eyes met as she lay in a hammock at a barbecue thrown to help everyone get acquainted, we knew we were going to be lovers. Even though her boyfriend was there that day, we found a way to get close. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 8a9be3b | Perhaps I was in that season of winter in which all writers experience at some point. Did I still believe or didn't I? I had once, long ago. But years pass, seasons change, and hope and faith sometimes drift about in a chilly wind when love is something that only happens to other people. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 1e570ba | It was the question I kept coming back to, the one I couldn't answer. I had begun to believe again in the miracles about which I wrote, but now that faith had been shaken. Was God asking if I still believed? | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3bdc371 | The late afternoon sky over Paris imparted a softer glow to the city, hinting in a lover's whisper to be patient with her, because the romantic heaven of Paris by night was only a few hours away, and would be worth the wait. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 7fe0f0c | I didn't see how it could be anything bad, because that wasn't the way God worked, or at least the way I'd always believed he worked. I had gotten something back today that I'd all but lost, and by the time I'd wound my way to the farmhouse, I'd decided to hang onto it as tight as I could. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5f93b5a | I couldn't think of any reason except the truth, which would only make him yell, or worse, laugh at me. It was humiliating, because he was right. It was silly, after all, losing myself in some pulp romance. Life wasn't like that, not really. It was just that I needed a small break from my life sometimes. But how could I tell Robert that, and hurt his feelings? | Bobby Underwood | ||
| fc00723 | I wasn't among the fortunate to have seen sexy Brigitte Bardot sunbathing topless along Spain's magnificent Costa del Sol way back when, but I could not imagine it being more breathtakingly impactful on a man than was my first glimpse of Alisha Fontaine. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| f52ee89 | My first night across the border I stopped at a ramshackle cantina that had a warped bar counter and dirt floor, like in the old west, and bought a drink for a tiny but curvy little Mexican girl named Calida. She had a cherub-like face that belonged in a cradle but a body that suggested nothing less than a grown man could pacify her now. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3efbf6c | It did rain again, of course, but never the same strange rain as that night. I slept scant hours each night, and then only from utter exhaustion. I fought sleep, because it was my enemy. I knew I would never forgive myself if the moment I nodded off turned out to be the precise moment the special rain began falling. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9f803eb | That's why I envy Justin here in no small way. Despite her unfortunate room, and all those milkmaids threatening to swallow her with their smiles ... she can start her life over and be anything she chooses to be. Nobody knows what she was like back in Fredericksburg. She has lost all the props that defined her. Nobody knows all the peculiarities and character traits of her forebears so they can pretend to recognize those traits in her. She'.. | Gail Godwin | ||
| b8a7345 | home. Recognizing him, she said this before he | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 4204171 | I knew Laura wasn't home this morning, so there was no possibility of her hearing the shot and rushing over to help, placing herself in mortal danger. Which she would have gladly done, because that's who she was in real life, as well as on television; though her popular show was no longer on the air, her legions of fans adored her, and continued to watch her show in syndication. Like Laura, they believed in decency, the hereafter, hope and .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| a92de53 | the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 3436338 | General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 7c27090 | She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, "I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days." | Gail Godwin | ||
| be4df5b | If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"? Remorse" | Gail Godwin | ||
| 3b59831 | After all the human noise and conflicts have stopped, the absent person has more room in your heart to spread out and be herself. My mother's been gone ten years and I know her much better now than when we saw each other every day. | Gail Godwin |