The Wycherly Woman Quotes

“She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman

“...a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman

“A woman with thyroid eyes and chins sat behind the desk in the deserted lobby. She offered me a room with bath for two-fifty, two dollars without. I didn’t really want to stay there. The migrant years had flown through the place and left their droppings.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman

“I had a counter impulse to walk out of the bar and away from the Hacienda and her. She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to. And succeeding. I raised my drink and said with false cheer: 'Luck to the gold drinkers.' She sipped at hers.'You didn't say what kind of luck, good or bad. Not that it matters, people don't get their wishes. Wishing-wells are to drown in. But I mustn't go on like that. I'm always pitying myself, and that's neurotic.' She made a visible effort, and focused her attention on me: 'Speaking of luck, you don't as if you had too much luck in your life. Some of the kicks you say you go for were kicks in the head, I bet'.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman