Top 58 Richard Castle Quotes
#1. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...
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#3. I wish the choice I have to make today was so simple. I realise I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a murderer or Beckett arrested an innocent man.
Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Well then forget your head, listen to your heart.
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#4. No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.
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#5. When you say things like that to me, I call it a Kardashian. Know why? Because I'm looking for the but.
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#6. Shipwreck? Snow Job? I know. Firefly. I sort of feel a connection to him. Can't explain it.
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#7. What happens when that hard coating you've developed to protect the most vulnerable part of you becomes so impenetrable that that part can't even be reached by you?
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#8. 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!
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#9. Nikki Heat, you did this?"
"Would it help if I said he had it coming?
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#10. What do you think the odds are this is going to be one of those cases where the butler did it? Because I could sell that story to any magazine in the country just for the headline.
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#11. You can never tell from the door what's behind a door.
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#12. 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.
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#13. You're like my wife."
"Because I'm not sleeping with you either?
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#15. I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library.
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#16. It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.
But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand.
And even if I did what does it mean?
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#17. The heat tamped everything down. Aside from a handful of certifiable runners and insane cyclists, the park had been left to the birds and squirrels.
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#18. Know why transparency's a beautiful thing? Transparency means no shame.
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#19. It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.
- Jameson Rook, Heat Rises
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#21. Nikki didn't believe him but was applying another rule of jujitsu: When you're closing in for a takedown, don't get faked into a sucker hold.
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#22. And when the man Rook had dubbed the unholy spawn off Rahm Emanuel and Gordon Gekko wanted something, "no" came at your own risk.
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#23. Or maybe go sci-fi. You sorta look like that guy who roamed outer space everybody's so crazy about."
"Malcolm Reynolds?" asked Rook.
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#24. The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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
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#28. A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.
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#29. Everything is fine, everything is just fine. It's ordinary. The problem is I don't want ordinary I want ... "
"Magic?"
"Yeah, you know what the problem is, we just aren't in love, neither one of us wants to admit it.
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#30. Rook asked, "Did you really stab him with an icicle?"
When she nodded, he said, "Please tell me you said FREEZE."
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#31. Nikki, never underestimate the ability of the devils among us to see only the saints in themselves. How else could they go about their day?
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#33. Showers: I must have wounded him.
Storm: With a cookie?
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#35. We all try. And try as we might to control things, sometimes bad things get in and it's not our fault.
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#36. As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.
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#37. Best autopsy ever," said Rook. "I think I just peed myself a little. Seriously, I did.
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#38. There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.
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#41. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.
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#42. At times like these, without the work to hide in, without the martial arts to quiet it, the replay always came.
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#43. If you don't believe in even the possibility of magic, you will never find it.
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#44. John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.
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#45. Nikki paid attention to nags because they were the voices God gave to clues.
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#46. [She] was trading sex for print. She certainly wouldn't be the first woman to do that, now, would she, Nikki Heat?
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#47. For the right woman? I'd like to think I'd do just about anything.
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#48. Interested in some spices," said Rook. "I'm just mad about saffron.
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#49. ...but she shook the detective off and her moan revved up into a full-blown 1950's horror film shriek.
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#50. 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.
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#51. You said yourself the guy looks like he pleasures himself to pictures of Rahm Emanuel.
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#52. Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.
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#53. Because if you don't even believe in the possibility of magic you will never ever find it.
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#55. Behind every picture hides the true story. You just have to be willing to look.
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#56. Anything is possible."
"You really believe that?"
"It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.
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#58. Sometimes the hardest things in life, are the things most worth doing. It's because we haven't figuered them out yet, doesn't mean we wont.
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