Цитаты из книги Сердце Ангела

“Be strong. Be bold. Know the urge to attack as well as the wisdom of retreat. When opportunity comes, seize it, as a lion seizes the fawn. Tear success out of defeat; rip it free; devour it. You are the most dangerous beast on the planet. What is there to be afraid of?”

“I am not one woman, but many. Just as you are more than one man.” “Is that voodoo?” “That’s common sense.”

“My number’s in the book if you need me.” I wasn’t about to hand my business card over to another potential corpse.

“He the butler?” I asked. “Benson is my private secretary. That’s a butler with brains.”

Her innocent expression bore no resemblance to the ecstatic grimace masking her features when she arched howling beneath me like a tigress.

Her teacup breasts rose and fell with the gentle movement of her breathing, nipples like chocolate candy kisses in the candlelight.

We spent the afternoon like naked children, laughing, taking showers, raiding the icebox, conversing with the gods.

It’s usually some badass makes a young girl’s heart beat faster.

“I love high ceilings,” she said, draping her coat over the back of the couch. “They make you feel important.”

“The homicide boys like to leave out certain details so they have some way to judge all the crackpot confessions that come in.”

Everything about the place suggested the excellence of its customers’ Dun & Bradstreet ratings.

It looked like something the dog might have dragged in, and I stared at it a long time before I knew what it was. Valentine’s Day would no longer seem the same. It was Margaret Krusemark’s heart.

“What could be more bourgeois than a ménage à trois?”

“Obeah doesn’t need to hang a man on the cross. There never was an Obeah Holy War, or an Obeah Inquisition!”

— Рядом с тобой таракан — избранник Божий. Я их давлю, и мне начхать. А тебя раздавить — еще и удовольствие.

— Висконсин… То-то ты у нас специалист по церковным пикникам. — Ага, а еще по кадрили, по старым колымагам, по благотворительным кондитерским ярмаркам, по сельским молодежным клубам и пивным пирушкам. — Что это за пивные пирушки? — Это что-то вроде бамбуше для старшеклассников.

Ты у родителей один был? — Да. Я был приемный, но от этого они меня еще больше любили. Я почувствовал себя бойскаутом, дающим клятву верности. Вера в их любовь заменяла мне патриотизм. Она одна оказалась не подвластна времени, стершему даже их черты.

девушкам обычно нравятся всякие темные личности.

“I thought you might be innerested in something we found in the Krusemark apartment, seeing as how you never knew the lady.” “I’m holding my breath.” “That’s what they do in the gas chamber,” Sterne said. “Hold their breath. It don’t do no good.”

“The future is an unwritten text, and he who dares read those blank pages does so at his own peril.”