Quotes About Donna

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

I have long ties to the women's community.

It was a regular family scene. All we had to do was clean up a few murders and a matter of international dope smuggling, then we could move next door to Donna Reed.

Ma, signore, è una donna

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Right on," he said mechanically. And then it flashed on him what Donna had said—asking him to take her out. "Alll riiiight!" he said, pleased; life flowed back into him. Once again, the little dark-haired chick whom he loved so much had restored him to caring. "Which night?

If you boys are psychologist types and you've been listening to my endless debriefings with Hank, what the hell is Donna's handle? How do I get next to her? I mean, how is it done? With that kind of sweet, unique, stubborn little chick?

Barris said, "That girl is disturbed. She should be forcibly committed. Do you realize that all our taxes were raised by her stealing those stamps? He sounded angry again. Write the government and tell them, (…) ask Donna for a stamp to mail it; she'll sell you one." - Exchange between Barris and Luckman

on the bedside table in her room that

Drugs were suspected, though the article, in the manner of the Gazzettino, didn't bother to specify what they were suspected of.

Brunetti had forgotten to ask Bocchese if the report said where Pad was from.

from exerting his full force out of consideration for what it would do to Brunetti's hand.

Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

By happy contrast, Hobie's whole day revolved around dinner.

had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260

In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.

From the sound of it, had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.

We'd done our errands, not to mention an awful lot of cocaine in the parking lot of Burger King . . .

As much as I enjoyed her company I was slightly uneasy in her presence; not because of any lack of charm of kindness on her part, but because of a too-strong wish to impress her on mine

And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it – although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's