Best Noir Style Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You just hang in there, boy, hang in with that apprenticeship of yours, do you hear me? You are lucky they would even take someone like you. You’re a child of the slums. A ragtag. On top of that, you’re a whining piece of shit. Nobody will ever do anything for you. Do you understand what I’m saying? They’ll let you starve to death, no problem. Nobody is going to cry on your grave.” Poul-Erik’s Mother The Informer by Steen Langstrup”

Crime Mothers Noir Style Scandinavian Mysteries

Book:The Informer

Source: The Informer

“Love? What's that? Preferring someone to someone else? If that's love, then yes, she loved you. Of course, if that's love...then I love you. At least for tonight.”

Sex Love Quotes Love Quotes And Sayings Noir Noir Fiction Noir Style

Book:Knuckle Down

Source: Knuckle Down

“He felt satisfaction that the attack had gone as he anticipated, but he also felt oddly empty about the experience. He’d expected adrenaline. He’d expected the high of being back in the game. Instead, the violence itself had done nothing for him. Watching her realize that he’d won, watching the light go out of her eyes, had been a hollow victory. Maria Lopes would be different.”

Psychopaths Noir Style

Book:The Voice Inside

Source: The Voice Inside

“The old man wasn’t quite gone yet. His lungs gurgled. Rudy was hungry. He checked the refrigerator and found a recent deli bag of sliced turkey. He sat on the bed, finished the turkey, and watched the traffic crawling on the street outside as he waited for Keyes to die.”

Psychopaths Noir Style

Book:The Voice Inside

Source: The Voice Inside

“Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity.”

Privacy Surveillance Private Investigator Noir Style

Book:The Trinity Conspiracy: Part One - Betrayal at Black Mesa

Source: The Trinity Conspiracy: Part One - Betrayal at Black Mesa

“What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”

Witty Noir 1930s Noir Fiction Comebacks Noir Style Sam Spade

Book:The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“Gene was six feet three inches of lean muscle and hard bone enclosing a brain that had only one object: the acquisition of power.”

Power Crime Fiction Noir Noir Fiction Noir Style

Book:Knuckle Down

Source: Knuckle Down

“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?”

Love Quotes Love Quotes And Sayings Crime Fiction Noir Noir Fiction Noir Style

Book:Knuckle Down

Source: Knuckle Down

“She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.”

Insecurity Metaphors Noir Style

Book:The Lady in the Lake

Source: The Lady in the Lake

“So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer." "Me? How?" "The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read." "Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or both of them." She didn't say anything. "I didn't have to," I said. "I might have. I suppose, and got away with it. Neither of them would have hesitated to throw lead at." "That makes you a killer at heart, like all cops." "Oh, nuts.”

Crime Murder Detective Novel Noir Style

Book:the big sleep

Source: the big sleep

“After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.”

Crime Fiction Graphic Novel Noir Style

Book:100 Bullets, Vol. 5: The Counterfifth Detective

Source: 100 Bullets, Vol. 5: The Counterfifth Detective

“Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup”

Socialism Noir Style Scandinavian Mysteries

Book:The Informer

Source: The Informer

“Amanda esitò. – Maddie? Lei la guardò nella penombra della notte. Il lampione era lontano, la luce ambrata stendeva campiture nitide sui lineamenti tesi dell’amica. I capelli scuri si confondevano con l’ombra. – Andrà tutto bene, te lo prometto – mormorò Amanda e le strinse la mano. Madison annuì, vaga. – Sì. Sarebbe andato tutto bene, si ripeté nella mente. Se lo ripeté di nuovo. E di nuovo. E ancora.”

Thriller Romance Love Heartache Noir Style

Book:Hernest

Source: Hernest

“Tailing someone is like maintaining a relationship: you keep at it until they give you the slip, or until they confirm everything you suspect them of.”

Relationships Cynicism Noir Style Private Detective

Book:The Last Best Gift: Eye Witnesses to the Celebrity Sabbath Massacre

Source: The Last Best Gift: Eye Witnesses to the Celebrity Sabbath Massacre

“ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun.”

Violent Surprising Grimm Noir Style

Book:Gun Machine

Source: Gun Machine

“Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere. Tallow almost smiled as he followed his wincing partner into the apartment building. He made sure the door closed as silently as possible, and only then did he draw his firearm.”

Noir Slice Of Life Noir Style

Book:Gun Machine

Source: Gun Machine

“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory.”

Violence Memory Ptsd Noir Noir Style

Book:Gun Machine

Source: Gun Machine

“Frank Macy looked surprised. That was what Cab thought as he studied the dead man’s eyes. Surprised that he had been conned. Surprised that a man who was smart, cool, and lethal could be played for a fool.”

Noir Style

Book:Season of Fear

Source: Season of Fear

“The knife was warm, heated by the dying man's severed entrails.”

Noir Style

Book:Season of Fear

Source: Season of Fear

“Do you always carry a gun?’ Peach asked. *** ‘It’s Florida,’ Annalie said. She hefted her purse up and down as if she were working out with weights. ‘Even Mickey Mouse probably carries a piece.”

Florida Noir Style

Book:Season of Fear

Source: Season of Fear

“Tarla answered the door in a black silk nightgown and robe. Her feet were bare. Her bed hair was mussed. She was beautiful, but he could see a hint of age in her face, as if it were the first time he’d noticed that she was growing older.”

Dames Noir Style

Book:Season of Fear

Source: Season of Fear

“Man this getting out of prison sucks.”

Crime Prisoner Noir Style

Book:A Taste of Shotgun

Source: A Taste of Shotgun