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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”

“...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.”

“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”

“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”

“Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.”

“It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.”

“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”

“I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.”

“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”

“Here lies Morris, a good man and friend. He enjoyed the finer points of civilized life but never shied away from a hearty adventure or hard work. He died a free man, which is more than most people can say, if we are going to be honest about it. 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, you will see what I mean.”

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Book Keywords:

restlessness, restless, humor, friendship, sleeplessness, family, comedy, funny, insomnia

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