139 Quotes by Patrick deWitt

Susan thought of Malcolm as an exotic pet, a stopgap antidote to postcollege doldrums, but then something terrible happened, which was that she fell in love with him.

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

I almost vomited in the boot! I was just about to vomit in the boot! Can you imagine how upset I would have been?

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

Crossing the square at Saint-Sulpice, he split through a stream of nuns, who, as insects interrupted, lost the scent of their paths and spun away in eddies.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.