“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Normally, I don't take to drinking so early in the morning, but I bend the rules when I get my ass kicked… — C.J. Fella Copy Share Image
“I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.” — Timothy Holme Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know,… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.' — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“The Mass. Ave. Bridge is open... Some MIT students once measured it by repeatedly placing an undergraduate named Smoot on the ground… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?” “What kind of question is that?” “A yes or no one.” — Todd Morr Copy Share Image
“I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them” — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
