The night was all around, soft and quiet. The white moonlight was cold and clear, like the justice we dream of but don't find. - Raymond Chandler

From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.

اگر یه مرد سالم دعا کند، نشانه‌ی ایمان است. ولی وقتی یک مرد مریض دعا کند فقط ترسیده.

When I left, Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie-crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty until her mother came into the space with a broad homely smile on her face to watch me drive away.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.