Top 10 Best Lines from Raymond Chandler’s Little Sister

1. She had a low lingering voice with sort of a moist caress in it like a damp bath towel.
2. She looked almost as hard to get as a haircut.
3. She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
4. She picked a cigarette out of a box, tossed it in the air, caught it between her lips effortlessly and lit it from a match that came from nowhere.
5. “Shut up, you slimy, blackmailing, keyhole peeper!”
6. She put a couple of cold blue bullets into me with her eyes.
7. She looked as if it would take a couple of weeks to get her dressed.
8. She reached up and pulled a fingertip down the side of my cheek. It burned like a hot iron.
9. Marlowe, a private detective. Not the brainiest guy in the world, but cheap. He started out cheap and he ended cheaper still.
10. It could have been a beautiful friendship. Except for the ice pick, of course.

Bonus Dialogue

“Do you always wear black?”

“Yes. It is more exciting when I take my clothes off.”

“Do you have to talk like a whore?”

“You do not know very much about whores, amigo. They are always most respectable. Except of course the very cheap ones.”