Vintage Crime Quotes

#1. hold her close, tight, in just the way I know she wants. My thumb moves down to press against her throat, not with intent, but just enough to let her know I have her.

Christina Lauren

#2. Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Jeff Lindsay

#3. Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Roger L'Estrange

#4. I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. All I know for sure is that I have accidentally fallen through a wormhole in the universe and stumbled into someone else's grim life.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron's I can think of.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Once, she'd cried, telling me that she thought she should have noticed, should have seen that I was in trouble, should have done something. I told her it was my problem and my job to solve it. "Just be my friend," I said. "That's what I need most.

Jennifer Weiner

#8. Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?

Ian MacKaye

#10. Feeling - what authentic human fun!

Jeff Lindsay

#11. The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

Alessandro Nivola

#12. Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

Shia Labeouf