Patricide Quotes

“But worse than hating his father, he hated hating his father. Hating his mother felt like breathing air almost, he had hated her that long.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“Either the father is The Father, or he’s just some other guy.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“You know you began to hate liars, but like the rest you can’t remember when that began, either. You know only that you hate liars, you hate cheaters, you hate swindlers and fakes and frauds.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“DENIAL’S THE GRACE THAT SHELTERS US TILL SHELTER is ourselves.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. — Judith Herman”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“You can’t remember the last time you met someone who wasn’t a fake or fraud. You can’t remember the last time you felt what people call “trust.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“You know only that you hate liars, you hate cheaters, you hate swindlers and fakes and frauds.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“You know you began to hate liars, but like the rest you can’t remember when that began, either.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“Neither can you recall when you began to feel like you were just an absence with skin and hair.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“Each abandonment is the last abandonment, each abandonment another betrayal, another little death.”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. — R.D. Laing”
― D. Foy, Patricide

“He was our father, and he fucked us. — Rod Steiger”
― D. Foy, Patricide