“It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Yeah, Johnnie,’ I said, ‘it’s a screwed up, bitched up world, and I’m afraid it’s going to stay that way. And I’ll… — Jim Thompson Hard To Explain Copy Share Image
“Flight is many things. Something clean and swift, like a bird skimming across the sky. Or something filthy and crawling; a series… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Well. Well? What are you going to do? What are you going to say? What are you going to say when you’re… — Jim Thompson Good man Copy Share Image
“Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea… — Jim Thompson Life Copy Share Image
“I knew–though I didn't recognize the fact–that I wasn't all right.” — Jim Thompson Murderer Copy Share Image
I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I… — Jim Thompson Arguing Copy Share Image
“He picked her up and tossed her on the bed. They had a hell of a time. But afterward, after she had… — Jim Thompson Depression Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Becoming Copy Share Image
“if I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile… — Jim Thompson Decent woman Copy Share Image
“Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.” — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and… — Jim Thompson Breaking apart Copy Share Image
“You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like… — Jim Thompson Gone crazy Copy Share Image
“you might think it wasn't real nice to kick a dying man, and maybe it wasn't, but I'd been wanting to kick… — Jim Thompson Death Copy Share Image
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too. — Jim Thompson Dead man Copy Share Image
You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch… — Jim Thompson Alligators Copy Share Image
“You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life… — Jim Thompson Book Copy Share Image
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't… — Jim Thompson Baby Copy Share Image
“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And… — Jim Thompson Identity Copy Share Image
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. — Jim Thompson Forgotten Copy Share Image
“I yawned and I stretched. I sure was needing some sleep, but I guess I'm always in need of sleep like I'm… — Jim Thompson Sleep Copy Share Image
“what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?” — Jim Thompson Laughter Copy Share Image
“Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent thought process, she arrived… — Jim Thompson Authority Copy Share Image
