Crime fiction Quote by Cornell Woolrich

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it? ("Mind Over Murder")”

— Cornell Woolrich

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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