Plainclothes Naked Quotes

“I know it sounds lame, but I have to dig the way you think, and I have to feel you get me. My whole fucking life, I pretended I could relate to chicks so I could get into their pants. Then once I got in, all I wanted was out again.”
― Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked: A Darkly Comic Noir of Murder and Twisted Love

“The part of his mind that considered odds and consequences had shut down entirely, snuffed by the sheer adrenal rush of holding her, falling together into the Impala's sunken upholstery. He took her face in his hands as he kissed her, wanting to just get it right, to stamp the moment, to blunt the thunder of fear pounding in his skull as the rest of him succumbed to a sensation beyond pleasure, a kind of twisted relief that he'd macheted all his moorings, that whatever happened now would happen because he'd said 'Fuck It!' to everything that had rendered him, for more years than he could count, a soul-dead, heart-numbed misfit staggering from pill to pill just to get through the dull risk of his own existence.”
― Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked: A Darkly Comic Noir of Murder and Twisted Love

“There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.”
― Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked: A Darkly Comic Noir of Murder and Twisted Love

“Tina hit that tingle in the back of his head, the fuse that usually stayed damp, the one that got lit on those rare occasions when he met a woman who actually scared him. It was sort of like sex, but harder to find.”
― Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked: A Darkly Comic Noir of Murder and Twisted Love

“He hadn't expected anyone so pretty, and it threw him. Tina had the Faye Dunaway thing. Faye before the surgery, when her cheekbones were still as sharp as can openers and she looked like a feral gazelle.”
― Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked: A Darkly Comic Noir of Murder and Twisted Love

“Being a junkie, when you broke it down, was nothing more than a crazed day job.”
― Jerry Stahl, Plainclothes Naked: A Darkly Comic Noir of Murder and Twisted Love