Quotes from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“They threw me off the haytruck about noon.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky curls. Her eye was all black, and her breasts weren’t drawn up and pointing up at me, but soft, and spread out in two big pink splotches. She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money’s worth that night.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Tomorrow night, if I come back, there'll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“O.K."
"Gee I'm glad."
"Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river."
"You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?"
"Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“We’re just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren’t the kind that could have it. [I]t’s a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That’s what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“I bit her. I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“En realidad, lo único que quise en este mundo fue a ella. Pero eso es bastante. No creo que muchas mujeres consigan ni siquiera eso.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

“And Sackett had started in howling for blood. He wanted the death penalty. Oh, he’s a blood-thirsty lad, Sackett is. That’s why it stimulates me to work against him. He really believes hanging them does some good. You’re playing for stakes when you’re playing against Sackett.”
― James M. Cain, quote from The Postman Always Rings Twice

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