After the First Death Quotes

“I threw myself down upon that small soft body, and her hand clutched me and tucked me home. She worked and strained in sweet agony beneath me. I brought her there. I heard her cry out and felt her quiver, and then I melted at last inside her in unutterable delight.”
― Lawrence Block, After the First Death

“My performance as Major Breakthrough (whose comrades in arms include Private Bath, Corporal Punishment and General Nuisance) had improved somewhat.”
― Lawrence Block, After the First Death

“might damn them both for treachery and lechery, but I was so far removed from the realness of it that I was more struck by the fortuitous rhyme of those two sins than by the awesome enormity of the crime.”
― Lawrence Block, After the First Death

“the only suspect thus far eliminated was a man of whom I had not consciously thought at all since first writing down his name.”
― Lawrence Block, After the First Death

“Or cut my own throat as I had cut the throat of the girl. Wolfe Tone, jailed after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, had sawed through his throat with a penknife. I wondered if I could do the same. Would the hand falter?”
― Lawrence Block, After the First Death

“Когда не знаешь, кто твои враги, приходится ненавидеть друзей.”
― Lawrence Block, After the First Death