Dirty Money Quotes

“If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning."
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.”
― Richard Stark, Dirty Money

“Mad magazine piqued my curiosity about The Hot Rock. Where did that diamond go? Did Paul Sand really . . . ? (I checked, and my memory, which is not particularly reliable, is dead-on: Mad magazine ran its parody, “The Cute Rook,” in October 1972.) But I didn’t start reading Westlake until the 1990s, when I realized how ignorant I was about crime fiction. My first husband told me that I had to read five books we owned for every book I purchased, so I picked up Don’t Ask, one of several Westlake paperbacks my husband had brought to the marriage (and took with him out of the marriage, but”
― Richard Stark, Dirty Money

“I’m looking at you out of one of those windows over there, and you’re not here for lunch, what are you here for?” “An innocent conversation,” Meany said, and shrugged. “In New Jersey?” Parker pushed a half sandwich on a half”
― Richard Stark, Dirty Money

“Thanks,” he said, and shut the car door, and the doctor’s Alero wobbled away over the bridge and out of sight.”
― Richard Stark, Dirty Money

“Sandra popped the glove compartment and took out her licensed Taurus Tracker revolver, chambered for the .17HMR, a punchier cartridge than the .22, in a very accurate handgun.”
― Richard Stark, Dirty Money