55 Quotes About Noir-fiction

Gene was six feet three inches of lean muscle and hard bone enclosing a brain that had only one object: the acquisition of power.

What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Isn’t there something I can talk about that won’t remind you that you wish you were dead?’ I asked.‘No,’ she said.

This was one day Gloria had no reason to be morbid, but she was more morbid than ever.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.

Love? What's that? Preferring someone to someone else? If that's love, then yes, she loved you. Of course, if that's love...then I love you. At least for tonight.

She told me she was 17 going on 22, when she left home to find a new life in the city. She wanted to get into acting and be a big star someday. I said that was swell but a tough racket to break into. She said she knew that going in. She thought maybe she'd get a lucky break and go from there. I told her lucky breaks always came with a price.

It all started when she walked into my office that night unannounced. She told me she was in trouble. So I asked what kind. She said it was of the killing kind. Wanted to know if I could be trusted. I said up to a point, depending on who got killed.