“She had a teddy bear in her arms and murder in her eyes.”
― She Rides Shotgun
― She Rides Shotgun
“I'd've worn a nicer towel if I'd known this was going to be formal.”
― Black Wings Has My Angel
― Black Wings Has My Angel
“But comfortable is to art what sugar is to tea. Too much and you ruin it.”
― My Darkest Prayer
― My Darkest Prayer
“Her name was Mildred Atkinson and she had led a very stupid life. Grade school, high school—Hollywood High but she was no beauty queen—business college and a job in an insurance office. She was twenty-six years old and she was a good girl, her parents sobbed. She played bridge with girl friends and she once taught a Sunday-school class. She didn’t have any particular gentleman friend, she went out with several. Not often, you could bet. The only exciting thing that had ever happened to her was to be raped and murdered. Even then she’d only been subbing for someone else.”
― In a Lonely Place
― In a Lonely Place
“At the riding pace I would need to maintain for my double-transcontinental feat, physiologist calculated the effort being equivalent to doing a full Ironman Triathlon every day. ...it would be similar to climbing 102 flights of stairs to the top of the Empire State Building 40 times per day.”
― PROOF: Cycling Pioneer: A Record-Setting Ride from New York City to Los Angeles and Back
― PROOF: Cycling Pioneer: A Record-Setting Ride from New York City to Los Angeles and Back
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