Brighton Rock Quotes

“between the … something sought and …” (Pinkie)

“between the stirrup and the ground, something sought and something found”

“A double … and a …” (Hale/Pinkie)

“A double whisky and a grapefruit squash”

“What would be the fun …” (Pinkie)

“What would be the fun if people didn’t squeal?”

“The poison … in the boy’s …” (Pinkie)

“The poison twisted in the boy’s veins”

“He trailed … after him; … lay about him …” (Pinkie)

“He trailed the clouds of his own glory after him; Hell lay about him in his infancy”

“… was a word: … was something …” (Pinkie)

“Heaven was a word: Hell was something he could trust”

“Not bad? It’s …” (Pinkie to Rose”

“Not bad? It’s mortal sin”

“Like my father… the boy was shaken again with his …” (Pinkie)

“Like my father… the boy was shaken again with his nocturnal Saturday disgust”

“She took … with … that he could feel …” (Pinkie about Rose)

“She took deception with such hopeless ease that he could feel a sort of tenderness for her stupidity”

“It was as if he had been … whipped away into zero - …” (Pinkie)

“It was as if he had been withdrawn suddenly by a hand out of existence - past or present, whipped away into zero - nothing”

“She hadn’t been afraid to … . It was … not … that was scaring her” (Rose)

“She hadn’t been afraid to commit mortal sin. It was death not damnation that was scaring her”

“‘Of course there’s … . Flames and …’ his eyes on the … and the … and the … above the black struts of the Palace Pier” (Pinkie)

“Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation,’ his eyes on the dark shifting water and the lightning and the lamps going out above the black struts of the Palace Pier”

“It’s in the … . Perhaps when they … the water … . I never …” (Pinkie)

“It’s in the blood. Perhaps when they christened me the water didn’t take. I never howled the devil out”

“It was as if the flames …” (Pinkie)

“It was as if the flames had literally got him”

“The houses, which looked as if …”

“The houses, which looked as if they had passed through intensive bombardment”

“I believe in …” (Ida)

“I believe in right and wrong”

“I don’t …” (Pinkie)

“I don’t smoke”

“…, he thought, they call it …” (Pinkie)

“pleasure, he thought, they call it pleasure”

“he was shaken by a …, an …” (Pinkie)

“he was shaken by a sense of loneliness, an awful lack of understanding”

“pinched the … until …” (Pinkie and Rose)

“pinched the skin of her wrists until his fingers nearly met”

“when you met him … he looked …” (Pinkie)

“when you met him face to face he looked older”

“from behind he looked … in his dark, thin, …”

“from behind he looked older than he was in his dark, thin, readymade suit a little too big for him at the hips”

“pale, bony, …” (Rose)

“pale, bony, terrified face”

“She walked rapidly … towards …” (Rose)

“She walked rapidly in the thin June sunlight towards the greatest horror of all”

“Tears of … pricked behind her lids” (Rose)

“Tears of pride and pain pricked behind her lids”

“She accepted …” (Rose)

“She accepted everything”

“‘I don’t care,’ the … murmured […] ‘I …’” (Rose)

“‘I don’t care,’ the childish voice stubbornly murmured […] ‘I love him.’”

“I don’t want … . I want to be …”

“I don’t want absolution. I want to be like him, damned”

“God didn’t mind …” (Ida)

“God didn’t mind a bit of human nature”

“her mind switched from … to …” (Ida)

“her mind switched from Phil in pants to her mission”

“magnificent …” (Ida)

“magnificent breasts and legs”

“She smelt of …; … and slow seepy …” (Ida)

“She smelt of soap and wine; comfort and peace and slow seepy physical enjoyment”