The Damsel Quotes

“Grofield said, “And you, knowing about the plan, have decided to go down to Acapulco on Friday and warn the General to be on the eary.” “On the what?”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“I'm beginning to regret that suitcase," he said. "I admit it freely. Money is a burden. I may write a monograph on the subject.”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel

“You are old, Father William—”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“Up over the mountain east of town and down the other side to El Marqués, in its own way a more exclusive and expensive resort than Acapulco next door. El Marques, with its peculiar long beach of gray sand the color”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“said, “All right, I give up. We have to drive to Acapulco, and we have to take the only road, and I don’t see how we’re going to get there.” “What we’ll do,” he said, “is drive as far as Taxco, and then scout the territory. We can’t make plans of our own until we know how they’re set up. And they’ve got to be south of Taxco,”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“San Luis Potosí. The ruby in the forehead of Old May-hee-co.”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“She smiled, looking pert, and said, “I love to be the center of attention.” “The hell you do. That Gale Storm bit doesn’t suit you, honey.”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“character cries out accusingly at Grofield, “God damn it, all you want to do is die a smart-ass!” (177). The net”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel

“This last one, the sixty-three thousand in the suitcase, had been job number twelve, and the damnedest one of the lot. It had been set up by a guy named Parker, with whom Grofield had worked a couple of times in the past. Off the Texas coast there really was an island with a gambling casino on it. The syndicate boys on the mainland were upset about this casino, since they didn’t own it and couldn’t control it, so they’d financed Parker to rob the place on condition he and his partners wreck it while there. Parker had brought in Grofield and a couple of other guys, and then the job had gotten complicated. By the time it was over, Parker and Grofield were the only ones left, down in Mexico City with the proceeds of the job, Grofield with a bullet in his back.”
― Richard Stark, The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel