10 quotes
If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
It’s easy as nailing your balls to a stump and falling off backwards.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
We're living in a funny world, kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. [...] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
A weed is a plant out of place. I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it’s a weed. I find it in my yard, and it’s a flower.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
If we all had all we wanted to eat, we’d crap too much. We’d have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.
The Killer Inside Me (1952)