David F. Porteous > Quotes

“He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.”
― David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept.”
― David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“There is no human being as happy as a dog who knows what he is supposed to do and has just done it. Dogs are, in this way and in all others, entirely reliable.” “Where”
― David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“This is a picture of him from 1919, just after the war, looking like he slept in that uniform all the way from France. He still had that face, but he wasn't the same. I know there's men who came back changed: the Paterson boy up in Brownville hung himself that summer. Nobody talked about it much, and I suppose that was for the best. But Jack wasn't like that; it hadn't been a terrible thing for him, I don't think. Or if it had been, then it was one of those terrible things you get through and it sets you free.”
― David F. Porteous, The Death of Jack Nylund

“I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.”
― David F. Porteous, Singular

“You are gaining and losing atoms all the time. Your skin absorbs the world, you eat it, you drink it, you breathe it in – all these tiny parts of the universe become parts of your body, and some parts of your body go on to be parts of other things, other people. Sit on the”
― David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“Special Forces Armed Airborne Ultra Secret Hard Bastards Division (which would have a nickname like the Patriotic Iron Hell-Tigers) he earned the Rusty Bronze Star for Leaping from Planes a Lot”
― David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
"That's not my religion," Murray said. "My religion just says duck.”
― David F. Porteous, Good Witch