Jonathan Dee > Quotes

“The rain made for an odd effect forty floors up, because you didn't get to see it hit anything on the way down, it was just a kind of static in the gray air.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Privileges

“On the way home I was mugged and hit my head and got amnesia. I don't remember anything that happened before yesterday. I found your address in my wallet. I couldn't remember my name. I still can't. Let's go out and get new ones. My treat.”
― Jonathan Dee

“I mean she's not exactly a complex figure. You can look at her and pretty much imagine what that whole relationship was like. She's like a dog. One bit of kindness and she's so grateful she forgets about what happened a minute ago. ”
― Jonathan Dee

“Well, if you got Cynthia drunk enough, Cynthia thought, she would cop to wanting to do some good in the world, or at least to feel like her presence in it was value-added. How, though? Without some framework, some resources, even your secret aspirations just curdled into sentimental bullshit.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Privileges

“But don’t come around here with your Good Samaritan cosplay bullshit.”
― Jonathan Dee, Sugar Street

“She wanted to find his limit, because knowing that limit would drive a wedge between them; but in his mind, the question was not how far he would go but how far he would follow her, and she couldn't find the limit to that.”
― Jonathan Dee, Palladio

“Behind the haze the sun can only be approximately located, like the source of a headache;”
― Jonathan Dee, The Privileges

“wanted to be changed, but change was very hard, so hard that even one of the major events in the history of the entire world was ultimately no match for the pettiness and impatience inside you, the mundane frustrations that ruled your average day, the tiny, aggravating reflexes that at some indeterminate point had just made your life what it was doomed to be.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Locals

“she remembers the strong impression he gave, every day for ten years, that he was late for some amusing engagement somewhere else.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Privileges

“Another home to fill up with stuff. Her mom would be in heaven for the next few months.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Privileges

“Mark watched him through the window; he climbed into the black SUV—the driver’s side—and rolled out of the lot. A tad bit full of himself, Mark thought. But clients’ egos could be gold mines. And there was something else about Hadi specifically—an obliviousness, like an anti-charisma—that Mark felt paradoxically drawn to as well. These were the guys who ruled the world. They didn’t care what anybody thought of them. Maybe that was part of what separated Mark from that class of man: he knew he lacked a certain ruthlessness, but maybe it was even simpler than that, maybe he just put too much stock in the idea that everybody had to like him.”
― Jonathan Dee, The Locals

“Multitasking,” Devon said, a little bitterly. “Nice. No reason meeting me should interfere with your regimen. Won’t you have to go home and change now, though, before work, or is it Casual Tuesday or something?”
― Jonathan Dee, The Privileges