Diane Patterson > Quotes

“I hate coincidences. Because so very often they’re no such thing.”
― Diane Patterson, The Sound Of Footsteps

“You should remove your sweatpants,” Stevie said. “We’ll get dye all over them.”
― Diane Patterson, The Sound Of Footsteps

“overacting; this was Colin on a dangerous mood swing.”
― Diane Patterson, You Know Who I Am

“But the thing about monsters is they look like you and me. That’s how they move among us for years, continuing the evil they do. They always have really good reasons for what they’ve done, of course, because everyone is always the hero of their own story.”
― Diane Patterson, You Know Who I Am

“Drusilla.” “Hello, Drusilla,” he drawled. In my peripheral vision, I could see Macfadyen bending down to whisper something in the woman’s ear, but she was staring daggers at Liam. Or perhaps she was aiming them at me. We were standing fairly close together, after all. Amateur. Never let the bloke see it bothers you. And if does bother you? Walk away. Men are like buses: there’s always another one. Macfadyen took his turn throwing and a few of the assembled crowd whooped. Seventy-eight points. “Shit,” Liam said. When Macfadyen finished collecting his darts, he turned around and looked at Liam and me. His eyes were as green as when I’d seen him all those years ago. Either that or he wore contacts. I hoped it wasn’t contacts because that would be disappointing. Macfadyen pulled his darts out of the board. “And that’s five-oh-one,” he said.”
― Diane Patterson, You Know Who I Am

“We are close to Texas,” Stevie”
― Diane Patterson, The Sound Of Footsteps