Best Crime Noir Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I open the toilet door and step out, my internal fire re-stoked, ready to face my demons, fight if need be and win. I’m raging, focused like a jungle warrior after his second bowl of tiger-cock soup.”

Manchester Crime Fiction Noir Bristol Dirty Realism Crime Noir Untethered John Bowie Bristol Noir

Book:Untethered

Source: Untethered

“The bed lets out a slight gasp of air from the mattress like an old cat fart, but it looks like she’s too caught up in herself to notice.”

Manchester Crime Fiction Noir Bristol Dirty Realism Crime Noir Bristol Noir Thrller

Book:Untethered

Source: Untethered

“The room buzzes around us but we’re fixed on each other, engaged in a battle of who can deprecate me more. She obviously doesn’t believe such a man can exist and keeps at it, prodding and goading me like a fisherman harpooning an already beached whale.”

Manchester Crime Fiction Bristol Hard Boiled Dirty Realism Crime Noir Untethered John Bowie Bristol Noir Brit Noir

Book:Untethered

Source: Untethered

“And like a fool, here I am again, lapping at the beast’s teats like a true fool, laying my head in the lion’s mouth as I hit it on the arse with a big stick.”

Manchester Crime Fiction Bristol Crime Noir Untethered John Bowie

Book:Untethered

Source: Untethered

“Get a load of this, Frank.” Gerald Peyton’s pause set off his pronouncement. “She is expecting to get a wedding ring.” “That’s understandable,” I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cleared. Diamond rings—more sold in December than in any other month of the year—went for a cool grand per karat. Weeks ago, I’d priced them—again—for my domestic situation. “What seems to be the problem?” “That’s a big leap for me to make.” “I expect you’ll make it with room to spare.”

Military Crime Fiction Detective Novel Hardboiled Crime Noir

Book:After the Big Noise

Source: After the Big Noise

“A diamond wedding ring, you say?” I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. “As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she’s after,” I said. “Did you hold out hope you’d get by for anything less?”

Military Crime Fiction Detective Novel Hardboiled Crime Noir

Book:After the Big Noise

Source: After the Big Noise

“F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.” Bruno Hanson in In The Shadow of Sadd.”

Crime Noir Scandinavian Mysteries

Book:In The Shadow of Sadd

Source: In The Shadow of Sadd

“Foreign food isn’t really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.”

Crime Fiction Crime Noir Scandinavian Mysteries

Book:In The Shadow of Sadd

Source: In The Shadow of Sadd

“We cut down trees that do not bear fruit! We have to bring back the death penalty! It’s the only way to deal with evil.” “Would you execute anyone else, now that you’re in a groove?” Conversation on Radio Fake 112.8 MHz In The Shadow of Sadd”

Crime Noir Scandinavian Mysteries

Book:In The Shadow of Sadd

Source: In The Shadow of Sadd

“Oblivion is bliss. It makes one feel at peace. But not quite. Not quite. My brain is at peace. But my heart isn't. It longs for its other half. The half that comprises the whole. The half that matches its beat. The half that makes it throb. The half that makes it strong to overcome anything. Even oblivion.”

Romance Mental Illness Thriller Psychological Thriller Depression Recovery Crime Noir

Book:Chroma Hearts

Source: Chroma Hearts

“And that's why De Niro is superior to Pacino. Can you pass the bong?" - Opening line, Blood Will Have Blood”

Thriller Dark Humor Crime Noir

Author:Thomas H. Carry

“And that's why De Niro is superior to Pacino. Can you pass the bong?”

Thriller Dark Humor Crime Noir

Book:Blood Will Have Blood

Source: Blood Will Have Blood

“She said to me, “I don’t know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.”

Crime Noir

Author:Renee Thebeau

“All I heard was the sound of my own heart. Beating, but not breathing. Alive, but not living. Whole, but fatally broken.”

Crime Mental Health Thriller Crime Noir Psychological Thrillerc

Book:Chroma Hearts

Source: Chroma Hearts

“He expected me to die that night. I didn’t. I will not die now.”

Romance Thriller Psychological Thriller Crime Noir

Book:Chroma Hearts

Source: Chroma Hearts

“You can let go now. Please let go. I will see you in your dreams and I will delight in knowing that a part of your heart, however small, will be yearning for me.”

Romance Mental Illness Thriller Psychological Thriller Crime Noir

Book:Chroma Hearts

Source: Chroma Hearts

“I wished I could have loved you less. Maybe…just maybe, the pain would be more bearable? Would it have been? Would loving you less give me the strength to give you up and let go, when all I ever wanted to do was to clutch you in my heart and take you away from everyone?”

Romance Depression Mental Illness Thriller Psychological Thriller Crime Noir

Book:Chroma Hearts

Source: Chroma Hearts

“I had no reason to defend myself. Life was just a lie, and one constantly lived in lies within the big lie.”

Crime Fiction Crime Noir

Book:Almirah

Source: Almirah