The Galton Case Quotes

“The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“What brings you up to the City?" he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“He wouldn't look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“We had reached the foot of Sable's hill. Howell wrestled his car up the climbing curves. The tires shuddered and screeched like lost souls under punishment.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“Arroyo Park was an economic battleground where managers and professional people matched wits and incomes. The people on Mrs. Galton’s street didn’t know there had been a war. Their grandfathers or great-grandfathers had won it for them; death and taxes were all they had to cope with.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“His smile was wide and raw”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“He had black eyes like his mother’s, and short brown hair which stuck up all over his head like visible excitement.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“A woman of about sixty answered the door. She had blue-white hair and a look on her face you don’t see too often any more, the look of a woman who hasn’t been disappointed: ‘Yes,”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case