Darkness At Dawn Quotes

“You his brother?'

'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!'

'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.'

I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy.

("Walls That Hear You")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Darkness At Dawn

“All we can do about this nightmare we live in is to create, if we are very lucky, a few islands of love and trust to sustain us and help us forget. But love dies while the lovers go on living, and Woolrich excels at making us watch while relationships corrode. He knew the horrors that both love and lovelessness can breed, yet he created very few irredeemably evil characters; for with whoever loves or needs love, Woolrich identifies, all of that person's dark side notwithstanding.

("Introduction")”
― Francis M. Nevins, Darkness At Dawn

“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
("Introduction")”
― Francis M. Nevins, Darkness At Dawn

“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world is controlled by, malignant forces preying on us, a rejection of happy endings and a preference for resolutions heavy with doom, but always redeemed by a breathtakingly vivid poetry of word (if the work was a novel or story) or image (if it was a movie). ("Introduction")”
― Francis M. Nevins, Darkness At Dawn