She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.

Cornell Woolrich

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His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.

Cornell Woolrich

Tags: guns noir crime-fiction shooting gun pistol crime-thriller shooter shootings noir-fiction gunplay



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There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.

Cornell Woolrich

Tags: death noir crime-fiction crime-thriller noir-fiction



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It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.

Cornell Woolrich

Tags: kiss prison goodbye noir farewell



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