Tag: playback

4 posts since October 2015 RSS

  • May 6th, 2017 6:02pm

    What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods.

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    Playback (1958) by Raymond Chandler.

    One of my absolute favorite quotes lol. 

  • October 24th, 2016 3:07am

    The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket. She wasn’t carrying anything but a paperback which she dumped in the first trash can she came to. She sat down and looked at the floor. An unhappy girl, if I ever saw one.

    — Playback by Raymond Chandler.

  • November 1st, 2015 3:55pm

    There are things that are facts, in a statistical sense, on paper, on a tape recorder, in evidence. And there are things that are facts because they have to be facts, because nothing makes any sense otherwise.

    — Playback by Raymond Chandler.

  • October 19th, 2015 1:04pm

    It is like a sudden scream in the night, but there is no sound. Almost always at night, because the dark hours are the hours of danger. But it has happened to me also in broad daylight ― that strange, clarified moment when I suddenly know something I have no reason for knowing. Unless out of the long years and the long tensions, and in the present case, the abrupt certainty that what bullfighters call “the moment of truth” is here.

    — Playback by Raymond Chandler.