The Night and the Music Quotes

“I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle.”
― Lawrence Block, The Night and The Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories

“When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.”
― Lawrence Block, The Night and The Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories

“People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.”
― Lawrence Block, The Night and The Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories

“He’d crossed up a lot of people along the way and always got away with it, but then that’s usually the way it works. You dodge all the bullets but the last one.”
― Lawrence Block, The Night and The Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories

“When you’re as young as Paula Wittlauer you hang in there, knowing things are going to get better. When you’re my age you just hope they don’t get too much worse.”
― Lawrence Block, The Night and The Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories