In Cold Blood 1

• 'A white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as greek temples'
• 'At the time not a soul in sleeping holcomb heard them - four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives'
• 'His square-jawed, confident face retained a healthy-hued youthfulness'
• 'He wore a plain gold band'
• 'The town darling'
• 'Like mr clutter, the young man…never drank coffee'
• 'Stunted legs that seemed grotesquely inadequate to the grown-up bulk they supported'
• 'Champion cherry-pie maker, always winning prizes'
• 'She found it her duty'
• 'Straight A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-h programme and the Young methodists league, a skilled rider, an excellent musician…'
• 'Radiant jauntiness'
• 'Bobby took me to the spook movie. And we held hands'
• 'A dictionary buff, a devotee of obscure words'
• 'She's a real sweet person, your mother'
• 'Unconquerable timidity'
• 'Her look of helpless, homespun ethereality aroused protective compassion'
• 'Seizures of grief'
• 'Very attentive to hygiene'
• 'Seemed composed of mismatching parts'
• 'Chunky, dwarfish legs… pained him so severely that he had become an aspirin addict'
• 'A specimen of frontier fanciness'
• 'No better place to raise kids'
• 'But Dick, smiling boastfully, boyishly, did not agree'
• 'From first footfall to final silence, flawlessly devised'
• 'He had only one close friend'
• 'He was not in the least Mr Clutters son but rather Bonnie's child, a sensitive and reticent boy'
• 'Nuns…were bad luck and Perry was most respectful of his superstitions'
• 'Real and only friend'
• 'Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion'
• 'You despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your frustration and resentment'
• 'He was famous for never carrying cash'
• 'I fell pretty good. And pretty optimistic'
• 'Empty and lonesome'
• 'Wonderful, gentle people, with manners like flowers'
• 'She was pretty and popular'
• 'Closer than most brothers and sisters'
• 'Howdy, Stranger! Welcome to Garden city. A friendly Place'
• 'Almost unbendable kness'
• 'A natural killer - absolutely sane but conscienceless'
• 'Girlish and as frothy as a ballerinas tutu'