Jorn Barger

“Generation after generation had to start from scratch and learn the world over again. It changed so rapidly that children couldn't learn from their parents or parents from their children. The generations were like alien tribes islanded in time.”
― Ross Macdonald

“Then they swarmed over me, hung on my arms, kicked my legs from under me, kicked consciousness out of my head. It slid like a disappearing tail light down the dark mountainside of the world.”
― Ross Macdonald

“She put her hands over her ears and made a monkey face. Even then, she couldn't look ugly. She had such good bones, her skeleton would have been an ornament in any closet.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Doomsters

“The smell of her hair was as clean and strange as the redheaded girl’s who sat ahead of me in senior year.”
― Ross Macdonald