The Dashiell Hammett Megapack Quotes

“His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband—say, forty—with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dashiell Hammett Megapack

“Margaret’s throat had some swollen thing in it. Fog blurred everything but the charging red face. An unvoiced whimper shook her breast. She wanted to run to him as to a lover. She wanted to run from him as from a ravisher. She stood very still in her doorway, smiling demurely with dry, hot mouth.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Dashiell Hammett Megapack