Richard Castle Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Heat, you did this?"
"Would it help if I said he had it coming? — Richard Castle

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

People change when you're not looking. — Richard Castle

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

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. — Richard Castle

Shipwreck? Snow Job? I know. Firefly. I sort of feel a connection to him. Can't explain it. — Richard Castle

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

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

As Toppers rose from her seat on a sofa to meet him, Storm realized that he was looking at an architectural marvel. She weighed less than a hundred pounds and was under five feet tall, but she was so top-heavy that Storm wondered how she kept herself from tumbling facedown when she reached out to shake his hand. — Richard Castle

Showers: I must have wounded him.
Storm: With a cookie? — Richard Castle

If you don't believe in even the possibility of magic, you will never find it. — Richard Castle

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

[She] was trading sex for print. She certainly wouldn't be the first woman to do that, now, would she, Nikki Heat? — Richard Castle

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. — Richard Castle

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? — Richard Castle

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. — 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

Go ahead," he said. "I need the practice. — Richard Castle

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

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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Heat Rises — Richard Castle

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? — Richard Castle

Know why transparency's a beautiful thing? Transparency means no shame. — Richard Castle

Go ahead. Rip my bodice. — Richard Castle

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

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

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

At times like these, without the work to hide in, without the martial arts to quiet it, the replay always came. — Richard Castle

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. — Richard Castle

For the right woman? I'd like to think I'd do just about anything. — Richard Castle

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

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. — Richard Castle

Interested in some spices," said Rook. "I'm just mad about saffron. — Richard Castle

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

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

Nikki paid attention to nags because they were the voices God gave to clues. — 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

...but she shook the detective off and her moan revved up into a full-blown 1950's horror film shriek. — Richard Castle

You're like my wife."
"Because I'm not sleeping with you either? — Richard Castle

Barkovsky and Petrov had turned — Richard Castle

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. — Richard Castle

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

Around 11 P.M., unable to concentrate on his work or even watch the news, he had started to wonder if this was how it started with stalkers. And then he started to think maybe he'd do his next article as an investigation of stalkers. But then he wondered ... if you do a ride-along with a stalker, are you stalking the stalker?
It all got very weird. — Richard Castle

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

Fools drive, lovers enjoy the ride. — Richard Castle

You remember how he used to be girl on either arm? You really don't see that guy too much anymore. Why do you think that is? He's waiting for you. I know you're dealing with stuff but you cannot ask him to wait forever! Unless of course, you're okay with him pulling away."
"What if it doesn't work out? What if it ends up like you and Javier?"
"Well at least we gave it a shot. And so it didn't work out, so what? Now, we can move on give or take the occasional booty call."
"I just don't 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? — Richard Castle

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. — Richard Castle

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. — Richard Castle

And when the man Rook had dubbed the unholy spawn off Rahm Emanuel and Gordon Gekko wanted something, "no" came at your own risk. — 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

Absence makes the loins grow hotter. — Richard Castle

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. — Richard Castle

There's always a story. — Richard Castle

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

Ochoa pulled the door and held it open for her. Nikki pivoted around the jamb, squaring her aim up the hall. She stopped, still holding her combat stance, shook her head, and mumbled, "Mother ... "
... Rook was standing halfway up the hall with Paxton snugged behind him holding the gun to his head. He looked at Nikki sheepishly and said, "So, I'm gonna guess it's Noah. — Richard Castle

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

It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.
- Jameson Rook, Heat Rises — Richard Castle

I loves me my Google — Richard Castle

A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs. — Richard Castle

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

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? — Richard Castle

I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I? — Richard Castle

You said yourself the guy looks like he pleasures himself to pictures of Rahm Emanuel. — Richard Castle

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 ... — Richard Castle

Best autopsy ever," said Rook. "I think I just peed myself a little. Seriously, I did. — Richard Castle

Behind every picture hides the true story. You just have to be willing to look. — Richard Castle

You can never tell from the door what's behind a door. — 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

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. — Richard Castle