70 Quotes About Dexter-palmer

But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

You must have also observed the masculine bias in the English language itself, in which women—literally, 'not men'—are daily confronted with the terror, unknowable to men, of concepts which they can imagine, but which an inherently patriarchal language does not allow them to express.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.