139 Quotes by Patrick deWitt

I look upon my past with disgrace. I was herded and instructed. But I will be herded and instructed no more. Today I am born anew, and my life will become my own again. It will be different ever after.

I find the constant upkeep of the body woefully fatiguing, don’t you?

I thought, Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world, after all. As.

Price was never recognized for physical mayhem, but his dismissals were just the same as a wallop in the face.

You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, “I breathe and walk and when I’m told to sit I sit and when I’m told to leave I leave and return home to luxuriate and think of how much I despise them.

I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for several minutes I simply stood in the hall shifting my weight and breathing and attempting to clear my mind of every recognizable thought.

Who has died, and what was their purpose, and did they fulfill their potential?

Sometimes he looked like an angry mouse, sometimes wise; on this day, as he sat waiting for Frances to arrive, he resembled a mouse who wished he were another mouse.

She wasn’t precisely sure what she was walking toward but she wouldn’t have turned around for the world.