“Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over.… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“You know me. Guys like me come a dime a dozen. No fire. No backbone. Dead weight waiting to be pulled around and taken… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“You've really earned it, he thought. You've played a losing game and actually enjoyed the idea of losing, almost like them freaks who get… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“Her features were thin and her skin was pale and she was certainly not pretty. But it was an exciting face. It was terribly… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was, I wouldn't… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“The police, he imagined, were now walking around the parked car. He imagined their bandit chaser was parked beside the car and now they… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“He moved on down the alley, his feet walking forward and his brain swimming backward through a sea of time. It was a dark… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
