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

“The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,”
― Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die

“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

“Hospitals are nightmares in white.”
― Clive Cussler, Night Probe!