Kate Beckett: Castle!
Richard Castle: So you, being the expert veteran of dozens of crime scenes, decided to pick up the murder weapon, to what? Ensure that we had your prints?Richard Castle: Maybe you missed the part where I said she was shot dead. When I heard the noises coming from the next room, I thought whoever killed her was coming back. So I picked up the gun to defend myself. It seemed like a very good idea at the time. That's when you, Esposito, and Annie Oakley come bursting through the door.Captain Roy Montgomery: Annie Oakley?Kevin Ryan: I kind of almost shot... Castle.Kevin Ryan: What? He had a gun.
Kate Beckett: Tell me what happened with Douglas Stevens.Richard Castle: I appealed to his humanity.Kate Beckett: I didn't think you had that side to you.Richard Castle: Well, when it comes to the people I love, I do.
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.
