The Price of Dick Quotes

“How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“It was hard to tell if he was lying, or really believed his own bullshit. “We’re good for each other. You give me what I need. I give you what you need. No one needs to know what that is because it’s a secret between us. So we put on our suit. That’s the investment: us.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“If you are inherently a good guy, which I think I am, you instinctively want to help people even before you know what their problem may be. Which, as I examine that notion, makes good guys sound gullible. Con artists look for good guys because of that built-in gullibility. If they're con artists that come in a sexually alluring package, a good guy can become a brainless idiot. Allow me to introduce myself.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I’d never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we’re all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I’d read Tennessee Williams. I just didn’t expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I came from a family of physical abuse. He came from one that had a psychological terrorist.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“There’s quite a difference between fucking what you can get, and fucking something that blows the brains out of your skull like a 44 Magnum.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I’ve always been a very private individual. For a lot of reasons. But mainly one. The man I lived with for all that time. The monster in the closet who I protected.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“There’s no doubt that Dick and I were in a relationship. It was one completely contrary to anything one would consider normal.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Many marriages end up failing because the people that start into them over time become different people. What love had found as common ground, time separates into distinct territories. It’s inevitable. As intelligent beings we grow by changing. No one stays the same. The person you fall in love with will always be someone different ten years down the pike. The same was true for friendships. Even curious friendships like ours.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Sometimes the only way you can get through the deepest pain is to distance yourself.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“He wasn't just coming. He was serving full course meals.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“A few days later she sent him a two page, single-spaced, typewritten letter preaching to him about the Catholic stand on premarital sex, and especially condemning the use of that horrendous tool of the devil, the seed-killing prophylactic. Don't worry. Those facetious words weren't hers. I paraphrased. This boy was more browbeaten by mommy than Norman Bates.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I drove a brand new Camaro. Yep, the stereotypical symbol of the madness of encroaching middle age.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I find the oddest things attractive.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“just sit back and enjoy my really big, fat, gay, perverted soap opera.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“It had finally happened. After all these years, my first attack of love.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Today is a great day to make amazing things happen,’ or ‘Aspire Higher.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Do you know what nine words can make your mind explode? “I need to rub one out. Do you mind?”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“It's not because we're better or worse. It's because we're different.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“People who pretend to be something they're not are no different than a child playing dress-up in front of the mirror.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Life isn't always hunky-dory, and we can all be a bitch on occasion.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“The bestie with two heads at ist opposite ends.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“There's always a tragic feeling when you believe you've wasted an opportunity in your life. Time isn't rewindable. Mistakes become future guideposts.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“We all have people who don't like us for one reason or another. Life doesn't guarantee that we're going to get along with every human being out there no matter how nice we are.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“That's when we make the biggest mistakes. The blood isn't in our brains when we need it.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“For a man, knowledge is as good as a foreplay.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick