William Doonan > Quotes

“It is my call.”
― William Doonan, Aleutian Grave

“During the last few years alone, I had napped through two funerals, an appointment to renew my driver’s license, and a lecture on Celtic mythology, although the last event might have been due more to content than to my advanced age.”
― William Doonan, Grave Passage

“You’re an actor? You mean an actress.” “An actor,” she corrected me. “Well I’ll be goddamned.” I leaned in closer. “No, that’s not what I mean,” she said, a little alarmed now. Jack jumped to her rescue. “Actor is the preferred term now for both men and women. She is in fact a woman.”
― William Doonan, Grave Passage

“It was a hard vodka, sullen, with a harrowing finish, the kind of tipple you’d want along on a cold November morning if you were stripping wallpaper in Minsk.”
― William Doonan, Mediterranean Grave