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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab0315a | Ella almost cried out in relief upon seeing him. Conrad released her hand and spun around to see who'd interrupted his bullying. "Afternoon," | Sandra Brown | ||
| 17d1d08 | He was rude and disrespectful and treated women abominably. Perhaps that was his attraction, what made him desirable. Geographically | Sandra Brown | ||
| 01cbc42 | emotions to surface now. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 26d87b6 | If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 59b54d1 | he replaced | Sandra Brown | ||
| 99a51cc | And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade" | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 56c65d3 | It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 2a8e636 | Was she jealous?" "She was," he said, not yelling now, "and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad--altogether damned bad!" | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| f493630 | The chief thing," I advised them, "is not to let her tire you out. When you catch her in a lie, she admits it and gives you another lie to take its place and, when you catch her in that one, admits it and gives you still another, and so on. Most people--even women--get discouraged after you've caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you've got to be car.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 7b82cdc | A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| e3a6071 | Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| d2729ad | Charlie Wild was a product of the Red Scare, NBC's hurry-up attempt to salvage something when congressional finger-pointing resulted in the loss of sponsorship for radio's most popular detective, Sam Spade. Both Howard Duff (who played Spade) and author Dashiell Hammett had been "listed" in Red Channels, making Spade sponsor Wildroot Cream Oil increasingly unhappy. After weeks of indecision, Wildroot dropped Spade and shifted to a new detec.. | John Dunning | ||
| 63edb51 | We begin well, sir," the fat man purred ... "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. ... Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. ... You're a close-mouthed man?" Spade shook his head. "I like to talk." "Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says th.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 5fd9dd3 | I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 5fb97cc | you'll have your city back, all nice and clean and ready to go to the dogs again | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 8d0e8d3 | What was that joke about a guy being so thin he had to stand in the same place twice to throw a shadow? | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| ee6160b | Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good. | books dashiell-hammett potboilers quality sanctuary william-faulkner writers | Lillian Hellman | |
| 1cf83ed | He was talking about hire purchase. precredit cards. A different way of getting the poor into debt, but I think he was right. It was nice when ordinary people could take a holiday in Spain, of course, but easy credit is what started the cultural rot. Tourism depends on lots of people everywhere with loads of disposable wealth, which means all kinds of changes through a place a cultivates it. The real, messy, informative past disappears to b.. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| bd84dd6 | Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| daeb4d6 | Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. "You are--a good friend--I wonder why . . ." | Michael Moorcock | ||
| c691265 | His life was over. The conflicts which tore his mind would no longer trouble him. His fears, his torments, his loves and his hatreds all lay in the past and only oblivion lay before him. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| ac50fca | They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 489f338 | Then Lu Wing entered, no longer in chauffeur's uniform but wearing a high-buttoned, deep blue silk tunic, an entourage of smooth, modern men of south China at his heels, ready, I heard him say, to do any further work required of them. The conversation turned to a more distant moment when his father died and he would claim the crown of the Wing emirates, to rule over a subcontinent and its colonies again. Sending his men off, he said, upon t.. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 8d1d54b | Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 76b41af | I have brought evil to many places," he said, "but usually there has already been evil to match mine. I seek no excuses, for I know what I am and I know what I have done. I have slain malignant sorcerers and destroyed oppressors, but I have also been responsible for slaying fine men, and a woman, my cousin, whom I loved, I killed--or my sword did." | Michael Moorcock | ||
| c3ab378 | The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| d92303a | The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lords came. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 09fec18 | Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of all existence, Lord Elric. The promise of immortality. | fabulous harbours von-bek | Michael Moorcock | |
| 77136e3 | At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not unlike that which a certain toad had once cast upon her: for there is never anything but apparent paradox in the choices made by lovers. | love making-eyes paradox | Michael Moorcock | |
| 4bf9548 | Memory is the foundation of identity. Through our sense of identity, we act. We determine our moral judgements. We rewrite our own memories, of course, all the time. We create fresh narratives to use in our survival. We agree on fresh histories enabling us to take action. It is part of what makes us such flawed creatures. Creatures of such narrative fiction creating cause and effect. | whispering_swarm | Michael Moorcock | |
| d106229 | You make the mistake of considering Christianity as something that developed over the course of a few years, from the death of Jesus to the time the gospels were written. But Christianity wasn't new. Only the name was new. Christianity was merely a stage in the meeting, cross-fertilization, metamorphosis of Western logic and Eastern mysticism. Look how the religion itself changed over the centuries, reinterpreting itself to meet changing ti.. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 7b13974 | In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods used to meet those issues are also familiar. Events in the Ukraine prefigured events through the rest of the world... | ukraine | Michael Moorcock | |
| b965f09 | Our Di had, according to her myth, been hounded to death by the baying werewolves of the yellow press. Of course it was now plain I was one. Maybe even the worst of them. Some people claimed they had actually seen me baying. In the tunnel. With the blood of their angel on my hands. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 8e25063 | he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| d653856 | I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| b644e20 | One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| bff0cab | People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 580088b | Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace--but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs! | Michael Moorcock | ||
| a6a4e57 | I cannot justify my actions. Roldero had said that men must be judged by their deeds, not their motives. I offer such speculation only n the hope that by understanding our motives we may thus control our deeds. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 94792a9 | aside. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 2defb25 | Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind. | Norman Maclean | ||
| ecee3cc | Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four, | Norman Maclean | ||
| 3d8a57a | it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3) | Norman Maclean | ||
| df6e8cf | I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin--we don't have to do it to know about it. | Norman Maclean |