I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
Just you and me and the road. Just a couple of tramps, just a couple of gypsies, that's it, but we'll be together.
The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking th...
We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual.
That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
And then at last I began to realize how terrible a thing it was, the dream that you make come true.
Piece of cardboard on which was written, in his Mediterranean handwriting, the
Don’t wash family linen in public, or with anyone except family.
Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.
I mobili erano spagnoli, del genere bellini a vedersi e scomodi a sedersi.
Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
A woman is a funny animal.
On a plane I like to be left to myself, as the clouds and the sky and drone of the motor all make me feel dreamy, and dreams are a solo enterprise.
She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.
By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.
Sarebbe difficile definire esattamente i piani di Mildred. Mildred era femmina in tutto e per tutto e la caratteristica di una mente femminile è che si comporta nella direttiva come una nave cui sia p...
As I say, they don’t teach it at the academy, but you learn it on the job: not every man’s death is a crime.
I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself in her power, so there was one person in the world that could point a a finger at me, and I would h...
I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky...
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.
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