The Postman Always Rings Twice Quotes

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky curls. Her eye was all black, and her breasts weren’t drawn up and pointing up at me, but soft, and spread out in two big pink splotches. She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money’s worth that night.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“They threw me off the haytruck about noon.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Tomorrow night, if I come back, there'll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“O.K."
"Gee I'm glad."
"Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river."
"You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?"
"Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“We’re just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren’t the kind that could have it. [I]t’s a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That’s what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Just you and me and the road. Just a couple of tramps, just a couple of gypsies, that's it, but we'll be together.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake,”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Ain't that funny? You fall for a guy because he's smart and then you find out he's smart.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Restaurant, hey. That's what I've got. Whole goddam country lives selling hot dogs to each other.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“En realidad, lo único que quise en este mundo fue a ella. Pero eso es bastante. No creo que muchas mujeres consigan ni siquiera eso.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Прихопити чиюсь дружину — дрібниця, а прихопити машину — це вже крадіжка.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Then I saw her.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Didn't you go back?"
"I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Didn't you got back?"
"I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“We're the friendliest enemies that ever were.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“It makes it even, but look at us now. We were up on a mountain. We were up so high, Frank. We had it all, out there, that night. I didn't know I could feel anything like that. And we kissed and sealed it so it would be there forever, no matter what happened. We had more than any two people in the world. And then we fell down. First you, and then me. Yes, it makes it even. We're down here together. But we're not up high any more. Our beautiful mountain is gone.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“But I’ll need a lot of them. Jungle pumas. Not these outlaws you see in the zoos.

What’s an outlaw?
He’d kill you.
Wouldn’t they all?

They might, but an outlaw does anyhow. If it was people, he would be a crazy person. It comes from being bred in captivity.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“We had all that love, and we just cracked up under it. It’s a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That’s what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords. God is up there laughing at us.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“You must be a hell cat, though. You couldn’t make me feel like this if you weren’t.” “That’s what we’re going to do. Kiss me, Frank. On the mouth.” I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I ripped her. I shoved my hand in her blouse and jerked. She was wide open from her throat to her belly.
“You got that climbing out. You caught it in the door handle.”
My voice sounded queer, like it was coming out of a tin phonograph.
“And this you don’t know how you got.”
I hauled off and hit her in the eye as hard as I could.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Me gustaría aceptar, se lo confieso. No me importa que esté mal visto, pero no puedo: es por los gatos. —¿Los gatos? —Sí. Tenemos muchos, y yo los cuido. Por eso tenía que volver a casa cuanto antes.”
― James M. Cain, El cartero siempre llama dos veces (FICCIÓN)

“Then one day, stead of her going in alone, we both went in, and after she came out of the hospital, we cut for the beach. They gave her a yellow suit and a red cap, and when she came out I didn’t know her at first. She looked like a little girl. It was the first time I ever really saw how young she was. We played in the sand, and then we went way out and let the swells rock us. I like my head to the waves, she liked her feet. We lay there, face to face, and held hands under water. I looked up at the sky. It was all you could see. I thought about God.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice