Crime Noir Quotes

“F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.”

Bruno Hanson in
In The Shadow of Sadd.”
― Steen Langstrup, In The Shadow of Sadd

“I open the toilet door and step out, my internal fire re-stoked, ready to face my demons, fight if need be and win. I’m raging, focused like a jungle warrior after his second bowl of tiger-cock soup.”
― John Bowie, Untethered

“The bed lets out a slight gasp of air from the mattress like an old cat fart, but it looks like she’s too caught up in herself to notice.”
― John Bowie, Untethered

“Foreign food isn’t really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.”
― Steen Langstrup, In The Shadow of Sadd

“We cut down trees that do not bear fruit! We have to bring back the death penalty! It’s the only way to deal with evil.”
“Would you execute anyone else, now that you’re in a groove?”

Conversation on Radio Fake 112.8 MHz
In The Shadow of Sadd”
― Steen Langstrup, In The Shadow of Sadd

“Get a load of this, Frank.” Gerald Peyton’s pause set off his pronouncement. “She is expecting to get a wedding ring.”

“That’s understandable,” I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cleared. Diamond rings—more sold in December than in any other month of the year—went for a cool grand per karat. Weeks ago, I’d priced them—again—for my domestic situation. “What seems to be the problem?”

“That’s a big leap for me to make.”

“I expect you’ll make it with room to spare.”
― Ed Lynskey, After the Big Noise

“The room buzzes around us but we’re fixed on each other, engaged in a battle of who can deprecate me more. She obviously doesn’t believe such a man can exist and keeps at it, prodding and goading me like a fisherman harpooning an already beached whale.”
― John Bowie, Untethered

“Oblivion is bliss. It makes one feel at peace.
But not quite.
Not quite.
My brain is at peace.
But my heart isn't.
It longs for its other half.
The half that comprises the whole.
The half that matches its beat.
The half that makes it throb.
The half that makes it strong to overcome anything.
Even oblivion.”
― Mayumi Cruz, Chroma Hearts

“And that's why De Niro is superior to Pacino. Can you pass the bong?"

- Opening line, Blood Will Have Blood”
― Thomas H. Carry

“And that's why De Niro is superior to Pacino. Can you pass the bong?”
― Thomas H. Carry, Blood Will Have Blood

“She said to me, “I don’t know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.”
― Renee Thebeau

“A diamond wedding ring, you say?”

I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. “As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she’s after,” I said. “Did you hold out hope you’d get by for anything less?”
― Ed Lynskey, After the Big Noise

“And like a fool, here I am again, lapping at the beast’s teats like a true fool, laying my head in the lion’s mouth as I hit it on the arse with a big stick.”
― John Bowie, Untethered

“All I heard was the sound of my own heart.
Beating, but not breathing.
Alive, but not living.
Whole, but fatally broken.”
― Mayumi Cruz, Chroma Hearts

“He expected me to die that night. I didn’t.
I will not die now.”
― Mayumi Cruz, Chroma Hearts

“You can let go now. Please let go. I will see you in your dreams and I will delight in knowing that a part of your heart, however small, will be yearning for me.”
― Mayumi Cruz, Chroma Hearts

“I wished I could have loved you less. Maybe…just maybe, the pain would be more bearable? Would it have been? Would loving you less give me the strength to give you up and let go, when all I ever wanted to do was to clutch you in my heart and take you away from everyone?”
― Mayumi Cruz, Chroma Hearts

“I had no reason to defend myself. Life was just a lie, and one constantly lived in lies within the big lie.”
― Stefan Simon, Almirah