Drowned Hopes Quotes

“They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes

“Two solid weeks of beautiful weather. Clear sunny days, low humidity, temperature in the seventies, air so brisk and clean you could read E PLURIBUS UNUM on a dime across the street. Clear cloudless nights, temperature in the fifties, the sky a great soft raven’s breast, an immense bowl of octopus ink salted with a million hard white crystalline stars and garnished with a huge moon pulsing with white light. It was disgusting.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes

“Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes

“mother of the bride had been determined that her daughter would have a church wedding, and women who successfully name their infant daughters Tiffany do tend to get their own way, so an evening wedding it was.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes

“Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes

“Why, Wally,” he said. “Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it’s all the truth.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes

“he’d rather shoot you and rob the body than be reduced to”
― Donald E. Westlake, Drowned Hopes