We need to talk about kevin Quotes

“You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.”

“You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.”

“Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17.”

“My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.”

“A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.”

“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”

“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”

“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”

“The secret is that there is no secret.”

“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”

“Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.”