I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.
All you will get from me is death. - Patrick Dewitt
All you will get from me is death.
- Patrick Dewitt
It is true, I thought. I am living a life. - Patrick Dewitt
It is true, I thought. I am living a life.
I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t. - Patrick Dewitt
I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be. - Patrick Dewitt
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I em… - Patrick Dewitt
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I em…
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. - Patrick Dewitt
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. - Patrick Dewitt
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed. - Patrick Dewitt
It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.
Our blood is the same, we just use it differently. - Patrick Dewitt
Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.
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