Diamond, the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me. You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can't; th...at's impossible. You think it's money; it's not. It's personality. You haven't got it, Lieutenant. You're a cop. Slow. Steady. Intelligent. With a bad temper, and a gun under your arm. And with a big yen for a girl he can't have. First is first, and second is nobody.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I have to do is hear his name... and every hair on my body just bristles with desire. When I see the moon of his face, this frame of mine oozes sweat like a moonstone. When that man as dear to me as breath steps close enough to me to stroke my neck, the thought of jealousy is shattered in my heart that's hard as diamond sometimes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At first, our bodies were as one.... Then you were unloving, but I still played the wretched favorite. Now you're the master and we're the wife. What's next? This is the fruit I reap from my diamond-hard life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When y...ou're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Masts in the offing wagged their tops; The swinging waves pealed on the shore;... The saffron beach, all diamond drops And beads of surge, prolonged the roar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to her ...mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and... they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of t...he pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »