Thieves Like Us Quotes

“To hell with it, he thought. Bad start is a good ending, boys.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us

“You take that School Teacher feller yonder,” the Caretaker said, “he got him a hot plate from Sears, Roebuck and he's just batching fine.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us

“Her eyes opened. They were like petals submerged in tiny bowls of unchanged water.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us

“Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country [...] consequently there is no moral justice.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us

“The town of Morehead had a business district shaped like a funnel. The funnel's mouth was corroded with low buildings of stone and wooden fronts.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us

“The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us

“The empty highway behind looked like a stretching rubber band.”
― Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us