She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight. - Raymond Chandler

His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)

Whoever had done it had meant business. Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it and look forward to reading and then putting it to one side while I break the ice on a couple more. In that way, when I feel dull and depressed which is too often, I know I have something to read late at night when I do most of it and not that horrid blank feeling of not having anybody to talk to or listen to.