Savage Night Quotes

“​"Sure there's a hell..." I could hear him saying it now, now, as I lay here on bed with her breath in my face, and her body squashed against me... "It is the drab desert where the sun sheds neither warmth nor light and Habit force-feeds senile Desire. It is the place here mortal Want dwells with immortal Necessity, and the night becomes hideous with the groans of one and the ecstatic shrieks of the other. Yes, there is a hell, my boy, and you do not have to dig for it.”
― Jim Thompson, Savage Night

“I finished the ale, started to order a third one, and decided against it. I'd had enough. More than enough. Or I never would have. You take just so much from a bottle, and then you stop taking. From then on you're putting.”
― Jim Thompson, Savage Night

“Sure there's a hell...”
― Jim Thompson, Savage Night

“He’d had too much. He was too beaten. When they get that far gone, you’d better get in the final licks fast.”
― Jim Thompson, Savage Night

“that crutch hadn’t done her rear end any harm. If you saw it by itself, you might have thought it belonged to a Shetland pony. But”
― Jim Thompson, Savage Night