The Bride Wore Black Quotes

“The lights of the city streaked off below him like the luminous spokes of a warped wheel. An indistinctly outlined, pearly moon seemed to drip down the sky, like a clot of incandescent tapioca thrown up against the night by a cosmic comic. He lit the after-the-dance, while-waiting-for-her-to-come-back cigarette. He felt good, looking down at the town that had nearly had him licked once. "I'm all set now," he thought. "I'm young. I've got love. I've got a clear track. The rest is a cinch.”
― Cornell Woolrich, The Bride Wore Black

“He called her every name under the sun but murderer; he didn’t happen to think of that one.

He called her every name but the right one.”
― Cornell Woolrich, The Bride Wore Black