45 Quotes by Dan Skinner

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

If you are inherently a good guy, which I think I am, you instinctively want to help people even before you know what their problem may be. Which, as I examine that notion, makes good guys sound gullible. Con artists look for good guys because of that built-in gullibility. If they're con artists that come in a sexually alluring package, a good guy can become a brainless idiot. Allow me to introduce myself.

I have only one thing to say. I’m an aggressive extrovert. A warning is advisable. I hunt down people lurking in corners and shadows, and absolutely no one is safe

It’s very hard to believe that I’m feeling this. It’s like I’ve been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don’t want to die again!

There’s no doubt that Dick and I were in a relationship. It was one completely contrary to anything one would consider normal.

A few days later she sent him a two page, single-spaced, typewritten letter preaching to him about the Catholic stand on premarital sex, and especially condemning the use of that horrendous tool of the devil, the seed-killing prophylactic. Don't worry. Those facetious words weren't hers. I paraphrased. This boy was more browbeaten by mommy than Norman Bates.

Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it’s better than the question mark if you don’t.

I’ll teach you how to do it later. I just had to see you experience it,” he said softly in Matt’s ear. “I haven’t been able to get you out of my mind since I first saw you.

It’s only human to think about the the ‘what might have beens’. But it doesn’t change what really is. And if we get lost in things that aren’t, we lose sight of what’s right in front of us.