Quotes from Bill Pronzini

Men have mood swings. Women have mood leaps, mood swirls, mood loop-de-loops.

it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

He and the second wife must have made a very close, self-contained unit--two people moving through life as if in a thinly membraned bubble, venturing out separately for practical purposes but neither of them whole unless they were together. People who didn't need many friends or outside activities, who found complete fulfillment in each other.

You know where you find sympathy? In the dictionary between shit and syphillis.

Two days later, a woman in Reading, Pennsylvania, also

That's my business." "Not if it involves breaking the law. Not if you don't want me to cloud up and rain all over you.

I soon find out this Grosswalk has been feeding her a line, telling her that his wife is an incurable invalid not long for this world

What I don't know is the other thing. Why don't people commit murders? Why are there so few? What is there about killers that makes them…I don't know…free from whatever hampers all the rest of us?