Dermot Davis Quotes

It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.

~ Dermot Davis

What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.

~ Dermot Davis

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

~ Dermot Davis

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

~ Dermot Davis

Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.

~ Dermot Davis

Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?

~ Dermot Davis

Women want a lot of sex with the man they love, men want to have a lot of sex with a lot of different women.

~ Dermot Davis

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

~ Dermot Davis

Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.

~ Dermot Davis

Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don’t speak your language doesn’t mean that they’re dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience.

~ Dermot Davis

Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.

~ Dermot Davis

Crazy people love their Kindles.

~ Dermot Davis

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.

~ Dermot Davis