“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.”
Ross Macdonald“There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.”
Ross MacDonald“The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”
Ross MacDonald“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.”
Ross Macdonald“Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.”
Ross Macdonald“The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.”
Ross Macdonald“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”
Ross Macdonald“He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.”
Ross Macdonald, The Chill“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”
Ross Macdonald, The Chill“Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.”
Ross Macdonald, The Chill“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.”
Ross Macdonald, The Chill