“Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“The big weekend rush is on. The big city emptying itself out at once. Just a skeleton crew left to keep it… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Now the evening's at its noon, its meridian. The outgoing tide has simmered down, and there's a lull-like the calm in the… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“She turned and walked down the musty, dimly-lighted corridor, along a strip of carpeting that still clung together only out of sheer… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
