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Cry Hard, Cry Fast by John D. MacDonald.
The Only Girl in the Game by John D. MacDonald.
His attention shifts from the bust of Jim Bowie, the famed soldier who has been in a grave almost two hundred years.
MacDonald novel, Cape Fear.
Kaylie says, “That one was almost too scary for me, but there’s an important lesson in it.” “What lesson?” Nameless wonders. “There’s terrible darkness in the human heart,” the girl says, “and good people need to have the courage to stand against it, or there won’t be a safe place anywhere.” He says, “Not in every human heart.”
With great solemnity, she says, “Maybe in more than we...
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“Those dog ornaments are cute.” She looks at the one in her hand. “Dogs are the best. They love so easy, they don’t know evil, they never lie. They’d die for you.”
“Tenderness is false mercy. It’s easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength,
courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.”
She says, “The tender-hearted love everyone they’ve never met because
it costs them nothing. It’s such a weak love that it isn’t love at all. They pave the way for evil. But you already know that.” “I do?” “You know you do.” “And how do you know I do?” “The way you are,” she says, and selects another ornament for the tree.
She likes to talk about the novels of John D. MacDonald, whom she says is one of the last writers to tell the truth about life and how people really are, what they really need,
Mr. Burr seems not even to be familiar with the concept of aiming a firearm, but believes the most effective method is to spray bullets as fast as the trigger will accommodate his eager finger. This misunderstanding of marksmanship and basic physics probably arises from all the bad movies he has seen and from the incorrect assumption that
the distance between them—approximately eighteen feet—assures multiple lethal wounds, when instead such factors as fright, recoil, poor lighting, and the target’s refusal to stand still tend to make the chances of a kill lower than one in ten, which does not augur well for a man relying on a ten-round pistol.
