I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Lawrence Block

Mots clés noir

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The white moth of hope fluttered before her face.

Cornell Woolrich

Mots clés noir suspense-thriller

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I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

James M. Cain

Mots clés love noir hardboiled

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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

James M. Cain

Mots clés money women murder noir hardboiled

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I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

Sara Gran

Mots clés addiction noir families

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I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum

Dennis Lehane

Mots clés noir nuns

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The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...

Richard K. Morgan

Mots clés noir

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The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions.

Richard Brautigan

Mots clés steak noir homicide hardboiled

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Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

Richard Brautigan

Mots clés humour noir stationary hardboiled

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She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.

Richard Brautigan

Mots clés humour noir beauty-contest hardboiled

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