Mark Simpkins > Mark's Quotes

“Then I guess that’ll do, pig. Babe, 1995.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”
― Ross McDonald

“All that beauty . . . and Daggrepont, ugliness personified, a fat, grotesque pouch of greed, avarice shining in his magnified eyes . . .”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Paradise

“The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy

“She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman

“Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.”
― Ross MacDonald, The Blue Hammer

“Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
― Ross Macdonald, Black Money

“All you men still have the Victorian hangover. I suppose you think woman’s place is in the home, too?”
“Not my home.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

“We merged our lonelinesses once again, in something less than love but sweeter than self. I didn’t get home to West Los Angeles after all.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Goodbye Look

“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or a very successful amateur tart on the verge of turning pro. Whatever her business was, there had to be sex in it. She was as full of sex as a grape is full of juice, and so young that it hadn't begun to sour.”
― Ross Macdonald, Find a Victim

“That isn’t your real motivation. I know your type. You have a secret passion for justice. Why don’t you admit it?” “I have a secret passion for mercy,” I said. “But justice is what keeps happening to people.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Goodbye Look

“Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“dozed off with my consciousness slightly ajar.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool

“She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Doomsters

“We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.”
― Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty

“No more guns for you.”
― Ross Macdonald