Somebody Owes Me Money Quotes

“I sat up and the room was full of a man with a gun.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money

“I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money

“What’s that old image about a sick person, when they’re about to die, they turn their face to the wall? That’s what ran through my head when I got over by the wall, of course. My mind isn’t always so full of morbid notions, but even Mary Poppins would have had a grim thought or two if she’d had my last four days.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money

“He was about forty, with the smooth weathered look of a man who keeps himself in shape with handball and self-esteem.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money

“Don’t move,” he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money

“sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money