6 Raymond Chandler Quotes on Description

Raymond Chandler quotes on description

12. The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

15. Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

19. ...crazy as a couple of waltzing mice.

20. She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

21. He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.

29. She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed.