“The police, he imagined, were now walking around the parked car. He imagined their bandit chaser was parked beside the car and now they were walking around it and looking at it and not saying anything. Now they were inside… — 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
