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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7) QUOTES

Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7) QUOTES

1 " We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. "

― John D. MacDonald , Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)

2 " ...her dark eyes were like twin entrances to two deep caves. Nothing lived in those caves. Maybe something had, once upon a time. There were piles of picked bones back in there, some scribbling on the walls, and some grey ash where the fires had been. "

― John D. MacDonald , Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)

3 " We want out. In the end, it’s that simple. We want out, where the law is, where you prosper or you fail according to your own merits as a person. Is that so damned much? I don’t want white friends. I don’t want to socialize. You know how white people look to me? The way albinos look to you. I hope never to find myself in a white man’s bed. I don’t want to integrate. I just don’t want to feel segregated. We’re after our share of the power structure of this civilization, Mr. McGee, because, when we get it, a crime will merit the same punishment whether the victim is black or white, and hoods will get the same share of municipal services, based on zoning, not color. And a good man will be thought a credit to the human race. Sorry. End of lecture. The housemaid has spoken. "

― John D. MacDonald , Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)

4 " W. H. Auden, "

― John D. MacDonald , Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)