Colin Winnette > Quotes

“In my mind, every piece had fit together, whether or not I’d had to force it. Of course it was all an overly complicated plot to cover up the murder of our beloved Ms. Klein, rather than a twist in the natural chaos of living, a simple, tragic expression of the one wholesale truth of our corporeal existence, that it one day, comically, accidentally, suddenly, horrifically, comes to an end.”
― Colin Winnette, The Job of the Wasp

“I'm not asking for heroes. I'm asking for people to take responsibility for themselves. I'm asking for at least some of us to have the courage to be up front about what they want, or what they need. When did we learn to hide like this? Who made us this kind of afraid?”
― Colin Winnette, Coyote

“Success was something you could really only measure in degrees of dissatisfaction. Which wasn't to say dissatisfaction felt worse than failure -- but life was quickly becoming less about the pursuit of good feeling, and more about deterring disappointment.”
― Colin Winnette, Users

“It was only a word, and words came alive in context. They relied on one another; the difference between a log and a log cabin.”
― Colin Winnette, Users

“This was why there were two of them, he reasoned. This was why they were a team. You couldn’t always be on top of everything, and there was always something coming.”
― Colin Winnette, Users