The Underground Man Quotes

“Behind the semi-elliptical bar four cowboys who had never been near a cow sang western songs which sounded as if they had originated in the far east.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man

“It’s interesting to come back to your childhood home. And creepy, too, like becoming very young and very old, both at the same time. The spirit that haunts the house.’ That was how she looked, I thought, in her archaic long skirt – very young and very old, the granddaughter and the grandmother in one person, slightly schizo. She”
― Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man

“It’s interesting to come back to your childhood home. And creepy, too, like becoming very young and very old, both at the same time. The spirit that haunts the house.’ That”
― Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man

“Women always talk too much,”
― Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man

“He was silent for a minute. His gaze moved past me and grew distant as if he was watching his daughter slip away over a receding horizon. I had no children, but I had given up envying people who had.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man