#boil

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#because #boiling #drank #i #some

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake ↗

— James M. Cain

#love #noir #love

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child. ↗

— James Crumley

#love

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#hard-boiled #mystery #mystery-series #death

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films. ↗

— Ed McBain

#film #hard-boiled #movies

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#mystery-suspense #noir #love

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#black #boil #i #kettle #kitchen

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#boiled #contraception #down #easier #easy

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore. ↗

— Morris Dees

#blood #boil #happen #happened #hard