I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.


The Sisters Brothers (ed. Granta Books, 2011) - ISBN: 9781847083722

Patrick deWitt Quotes

I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried...

I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried...

I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried...

I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried...