“Anne held out her arms. I don't want to say I flew into them. I wasn't in condition for flying. Or running. Or even dignified limping. Fell towards the center of gravity in my own personal universe. And if our lips met on the way down, was that any fault of mine?”
Source: Knuckle Down
“The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her looks left, but she had a hardness to her face. Money and bad men were the only things that left that much stone in a woman. I nudged my cup in her direction, and she served her purpose in life.”
Source: Herbie's Diner
“From Chapter 1:
"You’re not a local.” I paused, unsure. “Or are you?”
“Sort of. Randall Van Dotson is my dad. I’m Rennie.”
After tossing her head that coy, sweet way girls do, she gave me a candid appraisal.”
Source: Pelham Fell Here
“No more lip from you. Otherwise there might be a misunderstanding.”
Kika eyed the door. She considered making an escape.
“Oh…I forgot to mention something. It’s terribly stormy outside tonight,” said Mitch, with an ominously sweet smile. “It’s raining bullets.”
Source: Ruthless Shadow
“THE POUNDING RAIN HAD STOPPED as suddenly as it had begun. Sheets of silver green neon clung hungrily to the moist black asphalt like some reptilian skin.”
Source: Tell Me That You Love Me: A Hard-Boiled Short Fiction Featuring James Cartwright, P.I
“Facts. Just the facts. And logic.”
Source: Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong (in Traditional Chinese Characters): An Epic Crime Thriller with a Wicked Twist.
“...guardavo se ci fosse o meno un degno erede del Rabdomante, ma non lo trovai.”
Source: Il segreto della Vedova Nera
“Pindar, prima di fare il professore di inglese, aveva passato la vita su cargo, bananiere, petroliere… insomma, se si parlava di una nave enorme che finiva in -iera, lui c’era.”
Source: Il segreto della Vedova Nera
“Self-worth is the harmony of giving and receiving, sowing and reaping. Break this reciprocity dynamic and watch your self-worth get crushed piece by piece.”
Source: NO LONGER CONFUSED: A Journey To Clarity
“Se hai un dubbio, toglitelo: meglio vivere con un rimorso piuttosto che con un rimpianto.”
Source: Il segreto della Vedova Nera