# Quote — Mickey Spillane, The Girl Hunters

> I sat there as if I were paralyzed; for a second totally immobilized, a suddenly frozen mind and body that had solidified into one great silent scream at the mention of a name I had long ago consigned to a grave somewhere. Then the terrible cold was drenched with an even more terrible wash of heat and I sat there with my hands bunched into fists to keep them from shaking.

- Author: [Mickey Spillane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mickey-spillane.md)
- Book: [The Girl Hunters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mickey-spillane/the-girl-hunters.md)
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## More from this book

> They found me in the gutter. The night was the only thing I had left and not much of it at that. I heard the car stop, the doors open and shut and two voices talking. A pair of arms jerked me to my feet and held me there.
>
> "Drunk," the cop said.
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> The other one turned me around into the light. "He don't smell bad. That cut on his head didn't come from a fall either."
>
> "Mugged?"
>
> "Maybe."
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> I didn't give a damn which way they called it. They were both wrong anyhow. Two hours ago I was drunk. Not now. Two hours ago I was a roaring lion. Then the bottle sailed across the room. No lion left now.
>
> Now was a time when I wasn't anything. Nothing was left inside except the feeling a ship must have when it's torpedoed, sinks and hits bottom.

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