Jay W.

“Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people
off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.
Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There
is no getting around it—people are hard to live with.”
― Natsume Sōseki

“A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.”
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

“She was blond as hell, wearing a lot of black.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake”
― James M. Cain, Double Indemnity