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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44dd75e | themselves | Ed McBain | ||
| 17187e8 | that was April | Ed McBain | ||
| d7acc4a | It | Ed McBain | ||
| 6a29cec | They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles. | Ed McBain | ||
| 368d119 | I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse. | Ed McBain | ||
| 9bcbba9 | Some kid was shoving muggles. Marijuana, Dad. We call it--" "I know the names," Byrnes said." | Ed McBain | ||
| bd84832 | well | Ed McBain | ||
| 7f6254f | purse, was steady. | Ed McBain | ||
| 874523f | why was Weeks virtually | Ed McBain | ||
| 0abd4c5 | As a matter of fact, if either of the two men were Buckingham or Ovid or Byron, they might have respectively realized that "love is the salt of life," and "the perpetual source of fears and anxieties," and "a capricious power"--but they weren't poets, they" -- | Ed McBain | ||
| ee971d8 | stood | Ed McBain | ||
| feae6e4 | little wrapped package, | Ed McBain | ||
| 7c9cbf8 | Den uperkhe pia to khoneuteri, aute etan e tragodia. Upotithetai oti tha tous dekhomastan olous, tha tous kalosorizame me anoikhtes agkales, tha tous sphigggame pano mas, me te storge pou deikhnoume stous dikous mas anthropous, tha sphurelatesoume apo khiliades phules, mia monadike dunate, pallomene phule. Aute etan e arkhike idea. Katholou kake, edo pou ta leme. Enas laos. Mia kale, euprepes, tolmere kai entime phule. Kapou omos sta misa t.. | Ed McBain | ||
| bc15a56 | It always rains on Mondays anyway. Monday is the bitchingest day in the week and should be struck completely from the calendar. | Ed McBain | ||
| 566873b | Are you hungry?" "A little," I paused, "and thirsty." "Miss Collins will get you some dinner. And a glass of milk." "Milk?" I said. I tried to raise my eyebrows but even that hurt. "Milk," the doctor repeated." | Ed McBain | ||
| 38f09c3 | lighted | Ed McBain | ||
| c5bc9b3 | We can't let a cop be killed because a cop is a symbol of law and order. | Ed McBain | ||
| 4cfff0a | them perhaps half an hour to finish all they have to do. Alan gets behind the wheel and honks the horn. In the stillness of the night, it sounds like | Ed McBain | ||
| f602f5c | Georgie's grandfather had been born in Italy, and lived in America for five years before he got his citizenship papers, at which time he could rightfully be called an Italian-American. In Georgie's eyes, this was the only time the hyphenate could be used properly. His parents had been born here of Italian-American parents, but this did not make them similarly Italian-Americans, it made them simply Americans | Ed McBain | ||
| 3c30807 | What was the name of the band?" Carella said. "I don't think it had a name. It was a pickup band." "It had a leader, didn't it?" "Well, he wasn't exactly a leader. Not the type anybody would want to be taken to, if you follow me." | Ed McBain | ||
| e81bb83 | newspapers over his face. | Ed McBain | ||
| 1b2853c | arrived | Ed McBain | ||
| 64dffcc | There's a tap on my shoulder. I turn around and get lost in a sea of blue. A Jersey-accented voice says, "It's about time, kid," and Frank Sinatra rattles the ice in his glass of Jack Daniel's. Looking at the swirling deep-brown liquid, he whispers, "Ain't it beautiful?" This is my introduction to the Chairman of the Board. We spend the next half hour talking Jersey, Hoboken, swimming in the Hudson River and the Shore. We then sit down for .. | Bruce Springsteen | ||
| 14d3ce0 | I smoothed my grandmother's starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the tiny patches where she'd so painstakingly mended it. If I looked closely, and I did, I could see the faintest ghost outlines of stains from family dinners long ago. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 79824a8 | The Silver Palate | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 31fbc44 | picked up sandwiches and chips | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 93a5471 | Savannah gray bricks | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 0fcef96 | He wants out, Annajane thought. He does not want to marry this woman. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 2d4b330 | Hello sweet mommy. My name is Khalika and I am living in Gambia. I have read your requirements and am saying I am excellent candidate for professional job you are wanting. Please be immediate wiring two thousand dollars (American) for air travel expenses. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 3609aa0 | moment, because, | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 6d16fc1 | Old wounds. They faded, but they never really went away, did they? | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 8fef8d1 | She looked around the room and motioned for the waitress to bring her check. Eb waited while she settled her tab. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 8ead276 | you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| d3dfed8 | I can't wrangle bees. I'm terrified of stinging insects. Literally. I break out in hives." "Hives! That's adorbs, right?" -- | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 3802895 | Mom! It was so awesome," Maggy enthused. "Me and Roo had our own hurricane party. The seagulls were, like, flying backward. And the clouds are so thick, you can't even see Big Belle." | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 924c732 | Greer's eyes darted back and forth on the road, always vigilant for bears. Or any other mammal that might wander onto the asphalt. She'd only been on the road for ten miles and already she'd spotted enough roadkill to fill a zoo. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| fadf1e7 | The pay was crap. My boss was an idiot. And the final straw was that she wanted me to demonstrate a colon cleanse. On the air." Billy sniggered. "Talk about a shitty assignment." | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| d8b07e0 | Dammit, I gotta go," Clint rasped. He slid off the bed, and faltered. His gown bunched at the waist and Greer looked away, but not before glimpsing something she knew she could never unsee." | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 6b31149 | Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who's somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson. | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 63b080e | twin five-hundred-twenty-horsepower Mercs on each one. Probably looking at four hundred thousand dollars' worth of big-boy toys there." Greer eyed the boats critically. "You ask me, they just look like gigantic phallic symbols. Might be a little compensation going on there." | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 4df3d8f | Hey, Mimi. Did that homophobe lady bring any dessert? | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| f0082d3 | That conniving little slut," Pokey said. "I'd like to rip her arms off and beat her to death with 'em." | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 2ccaf18 | foot-washing Baptists, | Mary Kay Andrews | ||
| 9347d70 | she felt the past come rushing back with a ferocity that nearly knocked her down. And it struck her, this was not just a flare-up she was experiencing, not just a bout of spring fever. This was full-blown passion. | Mary Kay Andrews |