

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”
― The Lady in the Lake
― The Lady in the Lake

“I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.”
― The Lady in the Lake
― The Lady in the Lake

“I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.”
― The Lady in the Lake
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.”
― The Lady in the Lake

“However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody’s eye.”
― The Lady in the Lake
― The Lady in the Lake

“She wore a steel gray business suit and under the jacket a dark blue shirt and a man's tie of lighter shade. The edges of the folded handkerchief in the breast pocket looked sharp enough to slice bread.”
― The Lady in the Lake
― The Lady in the Lake
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