The Chill Quotes

“Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. I hated to get up.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother’s knee and other low joints,”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“time”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill