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Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume Three QUOTES

Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume Three QUOTES

1 " Something deep within him, what it was he had no leisure nor skill to recognize, seemed to retreat down long dim corridors away from the doom that impeded. He hadn't known he had those convenient corridors of evasion in him, with their protective turns and angles by which to put distance between himself and menace. Oh clever architect of the Mind, oh merciful blueprints that made such emergency exits available. "

― Cornell Woolrich , Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume Three

2 " Take it easy," he jeered, "relax. I used to be a sailor. You'll never get out of them knots, buddy. "

― Cornell Woolrich , Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume Three

3 " thing within him that cried Kill, kill, kill. It wanted to get the two of them, and nothing short of that would do. And if he and she had had a five-year-old kid, say, he would have included the kid in the holocaust too, although a kid that age obviously couldn't be guilty of anything. A doctor would have known what to make of this, and would have phoned a hospital in a hurry. But unfortunately doctors aren't mind-readers and people don't go around with their thoughts placarded on sandwich-boards. "

― Cornell Woolrich , Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume Three

4 " HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other. "

― Cornell Woolrich , Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume Three