“It was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“You can't let a little thing like total public humiliation stand between you and a good time." T.D. in the series Martha Speaks”
― Martha Speaks
― Martha Speaks
“And therein were many knights and squires to behold, scaffolds and pavilions; for there upon the morn should be a great tournament: and the lord of the tower was in his castle and looked out at a window, and saw a damosel, a dwarf, and a knight armed at all points.”
― Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
― Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
“All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“But one shelf was a little neater than the rest and here I noted the following sequence which for a moment seemed to form a vague musical phrase, oddly familiar: Hamlet, La morte d’Arthur, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, South Wind, The Lady with the Dog, Madame Bovary, The Invisible Man, Le Temps Retrouvé, Anglo-Persian Dictionary, The Author of Trixie, Alice in Wonderland, Ulysses, About Buying a Horse, King Lear … The melody gave a small gasp and faded.”
― The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
― The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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