Elen Sentier

“At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“There was some kind of passion between them. It gave off a faint wrong smoky odor, like something burning where it shouldn’t be, arson committed by children playing with matches. I”
― Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy