Quotes by Richard Castle

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank.

Absence makes the loins grow hotter.

Anything is possible.You really believe that?Its what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.

Rejection isnt failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. Its how you handle it that determines where youll end up.

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article.And Rook.Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something for this guy that went beyond the bedroom ... or wherever else they took each other. Nikki did not give herself easily to a man, and this betrayal by Rook was why. Heat reflected on her answer at the oral boards about her greatest flaw and admitted her reply was a mask. Yes, her identification with her job was total. But her greatest flaw wasn’t overinvestment in her career. It was her reticence to be vulnerable. Unarmed as she was-literally-she had been emotionally so with Rook.That was the gut shot that had blown clean through her soul.

Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?

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. Thats 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.

If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.

You’re not leaving. I told you that.” She worked to keep the calm in her tone to counter his fury. “I’m going to shoot.” “It’s time to put your gun down, Noah.” “His blood will be on you.” Rook made eye contact with her and mouthed, Shoot. Him. She had no shot and said so with the smallest head shake.

I actually do have a motto,” said Heat. “It’s ‘Never forget who you work for. And as she voiced the words, Nikki felt a creeping unease. It wasn’t exactly shame, but it was close. For the first time it sounded hollow. Fake. Why? She examined herself, trying to see what was different. The stress, that was new. And when she looked at that, she recognized that the hardest part of her day lately was working to avoid confrontation with Captain Montrose. That’s when it came to her. In that moment, sitting nearly naked in Rook’s living room, playing some silly nineteenth-century parlor game, she came to an unexpected insight. In that moment Nikki woke up and saw with great clarity who she had become - and who she had stopped being. Without noticing it, Heat had begun seeing herself as working for her captain and had lost sight of her guiding principle, that she worked for the victim.

Newsflash she already has body image issues. Its 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 dont 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. Thats 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.

For the right woman? Id like to think Id do just about anything.

I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library.

You remember how he used to be girl on either arm? You really dont see that guy too much anymore. Why do you think that is? Hes waiting for you. I know youre dealing with stuff but you cannot ask him to wait forever! Unless of course, youre okay with him pulling away.What if it doesnt work out? What if it ends up like you and Javier?Well at least we gave it a shot. And so it didnt work out, so what? Now, we can move on give or take the occasional booty call.I just dont wanna lose what we have, you know?Girl please! What exactly do you have, really?A friendship.No. What you and I have is a friendship. What you and castle have is a holding pattern. How long can you circle before the fuel runs out?

Its 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, its hard to know where you stand. And even if I did what does it mean?

“John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.”