“It all started when she walked into my office that night unannounced. She told me she was in trouble. So I asked what kind. She said it was of the killing kind. Wanted to know if I could be trusted. I said up to a point, depending on who got killed.”
Source: Tell Me That You Love Me: A Hard-Boiled Short Fiction Featuring James Cartwright, P.I
“Now take it easy. This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?"
I felt it. I took it easy.”
Source: The Drowning Pool
“The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house.”
Source: the big sleep
“I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars.”
“How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?”
Source: Jesus Saves, Satan Invests
“Machines can't lie," I said, lying through my circuits.”
Source: Made to Kill
“But what the hell, I thought as I lay there in the dark. It could be souls rot away with the body, too. What did anything matter in the long run anyway, except memories? And they only lived on in corpses that couldn't talk.”
Source: Love Stories Are Too Violent for Me: The Definitive Rerelease of the Cult Classic
“Understanding someone deeply requires the courage to reveal yourself first.”
Source: The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
“She told me she was 17 going on 22, when she left home to find a new life in the city. She wanted to get into acting and be a big star someday. I said that was swell but a tough racket to break into. She said she knew that going in. She thought maybe she'd get a lucky break and go from there. I told her lucky breaks always came with a price.”
Source: Tell Me That You Love Me: A Hard-Boiled Short Fiction Featuring James Cartwright, P.I
“Gene was six feet three inches of lean muscle and hard bone enclosing a brain that had only one object: the acquisition of power.”
Source: Knuckle Down