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I Am Ayah: The Way Home

by Donna Hill (Goodreads Author)

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“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: detectives, sharp

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“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

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“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

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