Believe me, Beckett has plenty of experience taking a bullet for other people doing stupid things. Hell, she's married to me.
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Alexis Castle: How do you do it, Dad?Richard Castle: Do what?Alexis Castle: Well, that letter that you have framed in your office.Richard Castle: My first manuscript rejection.Alexis Castle: Yeah. How can you stand having it there?Richard Castle: Because it drives me. And I got twenty more of those before Black Pawn ever agreed to publish "In a Hail of Bullets". That letter... that letter reminds me of what I've overcome. Rejection isn't failure.Alexis Castle: It sure feels like failure.Richard Castle: No, failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.Alexis Castle: My whole life has been about making sure I could get into any college I wanted. What's it about now?Richard Castle: Give it time. You'll figure it out.
Richard Castle: If I opened it, I was bound to be disappointed with whatever it was inside. If I never opened it, literally anything I imagined could be in there.Hayley Shipton: So you chose fantasy over reality.Richard Castle: Well, duh.Alexis Castle: But we're going to open in now, right?Richard Castle: Well, duh.