“So much for the recreational side of night life in the upper-bracket-income hotels of Manhattan. And in its root-origins the very word… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“She was ready to be a fugitive with him for the rest of her life - 'Whither thou goest, I will go;… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Then the long nights, that were also days, in the hospital. And the long blanks, that were also nights. Needles, and angled… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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“Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“They call this love, she said to herself. I know what it is now. I never thought I would know, but I… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“The cemetery watchman left the room and returned with a tray holding three small skulls and a large one. I could feel… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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“And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing thinly. I just stood there and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“He should have caught up with me inside of fifteen minutes at the outside, if he'd been able to get on the next train… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“As the bartender struck a match to light her cigarette, she put her hand on his wrist to steady it. Travis saw him jump,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. There weren't any more hitches now.… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“She was beautiful, only hers was the dark beauty of night, just as Sherry's was the bright beauty of daytime. Her hair was raven-black,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“And I still say it was just a coincidence;' he muttered pugnaciously. 'You say it too! Look at me and say it! It was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“And then finally she came - and the whole world faded out around us and we were just alone on the crowded sidewalk. I've… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes pointed at… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“He just lingers long enough to see his plane put to bed properly, then grabs a cab at the airport-gate. "The Settlement" and forgetting… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death called strangeness,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery.… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
“Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls evidently didn't… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share
