Beth

“It is true, I thought. I am living a life.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.”
― Patrick deWitt

“But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?”
― Joan Wickersham, The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story

“Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers