Jorn Barger

“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

“Taggert was thirty dollars’ worth of organic chemicals shaped like a man.”
― Ross Mcdonald

“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

“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