Brighton rock Quotes Flashcards
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Hale knew,
Before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him
A shabby
smart suit
A face of
starved intensity, a kind of hideous and unnatural pride
You might expect a hunter
searching through the jungle for some half-fabulous beast to look like that- at the spotted lion or the Pygmy elephant- before the kill
His eyes turned
to the big breasts; she was like darkness to him, shelter, knowledge, common sense
The grey
inhuman seventeen-year-old eyes
I’m a sticker
where right’s concerned
She smelt of soap and wine: comfort and peace and a slow sleepy
physical enjoyment, a touch of the nursery and the mother
He couldn’t keep it in.
‘I’m going to die. I’m scared’
‘Get me
a watch, Fred’
The violin
wailed in his guts
The slatey eyes
were touched with the annihilating eternity from which he had come and to which he went
Dark and
pallid and spotty
Dangerous and
unfeeling eyes
She had instincts, and now
her instincts told her there was something odd, something which didn’t smell right
She wasn’t religious. She didn’t
believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts or ouija boards
Ida squeezed out
with difficulty a last tear
Something fishy
to her nose
Life was sunlight
on brass bedposts, Ruby port
Vengeance was Ida’s,
just as much as reward was Ida’s
And vengeance and reward-
they both were fun
An eye
for an eye
‘’They drove him
to death,’ Ida said happily.’
The boy stood
with his back to Spicer staring out across the dark wash of sea
