The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything Quotes

“O thank you, Uncle Omar. Thank you for instilling a helpless youth with such grave suspicions of women and all their works, that here and now, in my maturity, in my thirty-second year, I cannot confront a lovely and half-naked lady without getting cramps in my toes and saying gahr.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“uncomfortable.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“The structure looked as though a pagoda had been mated with Mount Vernon, then boarded up and used as a proving ground for neon tubes.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“I live free and simple, Kirby, and I look on myself in the mirror and say hello to a friend I like. The day I stop liking her, I change my ways.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“He went down into the ornate maze of bars and shops and dining rooms in the bowels of the hotel and found a grill room that would serve him a steak sandwich and coffee.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“Hoover Hess, the owner, was working the desk. He was a loose, asthmatic, scurfy man with the habitual expression of someone having his leg removed without anesthetic. His smile was a special agony. He had gone as high as a seventh mortgage and been down as low as a second. He averaged out at about four.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything