In Cold Blood Quotes

“Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.”
― Truman Capote

“...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“And it wasn't because of anything the Clutters did. They never hurt me. Like other people. Like people have all my life. Maybe it's just the Clutters were the ones that had to pay for it.”
― Truman Capote

“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies.”
― Truman Capote

“All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it.Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing?”
― Truman Capote

“Although the journalists anticipated violence, several had predicted shouted abuse. But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrolmen, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“He missed Dick. Many thoughts of Dick, he wrote one day in his makeshift diary.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“... Old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers,'" I said softly to myself.
From behind me, Conner laughed. "If anyone is acting strangely here, it's you. This is a real '"'Tis," replied Aunt Helga' moment you're in."
I'd been quoting Truman Capote's classic In Cold Blood; trust my brother to answer with a reference to one of our favorite Simpsons episodes when we were kids.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers