The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep Quotes

“you have a better chance to get pregnant if you keep your knees way up and stay that way as long as you can.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“coffee must be ‘hot as hell, black as sin, and sweet as love.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“If you cannot stand the spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“The fellow’s name was Lincoln W. Higgie–Bill to his friends–and he’d recently returned from Turkey, where he’d spent a couple of years earning a precarious living smuggling rare coins and antiquities out of the country. (Precarious because it was illegal; if the authorities caught you they might sentence you to death, which was bad, or throw you into prison, which was demonstrably worse.) Bill Higgle was a numismatist–if you Google him, you’ll find he wrote a book on the coinage, tokens, and paper money of the Virgin Islands–and I was editing a numismatic magazine at the time. He showed up at the office, I”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“through the postage stamp republic of Andorra, and cleared French”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“Istanbul and find some way of getting to Balikesir. I would work my way through the city–the present population is 30,000–until I found the house Kitty’s grandmother had described to me. Her description was almost, but not quite, as good as a photograph. A very large house, three stories tall, on an elevation not far from the railroad station, and blessed with that extraordinary porch. There could not be too many houses of that description in Balikesir. If I found the house, I would have to investigate to see if the porch was still intact, then provide myself with an elementary metals detector and determine if there was anything inside. And, if the gold was there, then it would be simply a matter of digging it out and taking it away. A difficult matter, no doubt, but one that could be puzzled out later. It struck me as very likely that the gold was no longer there or had not been there in the first place. Still, one does not conclude that the grapes are sour without even attempting to see if the vine is within reach. Three million dollars–”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“You don’t sleep. You’re thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“Your mother spreads herself for camels.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“Your mother loves to perform fellatio upon syphilitic dogs.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

“The Turks have dreary jails.”
― Lawrence Block, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep