Victoria Selman > Quotes

“With few exceptions, people see what they expect to see and believe what they want to believe. Most of us don’t want to prove ourselves wrong. We want to prove ourselves right.”
― Victoria Selman, Snakes and Ladders

“All his victims were stabbed through the eyes.”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“Bad coffee isn’t worth the pot it’s brewed in.”
― Victoria Selman, Nothing to Lose

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”’ ‘That’s heartbreaking,’ I said. ‘Imagine”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“Book of Enoch?’ ‘It’s an ancient Jewish religious work ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Although modern scholars estimate the older sections date from about 300 BC,’ I said, regurgitating what I’d found on Wikipedia. I don’t have a photographic memory, but it’s not far off. ‘Apparently”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“it was a pity his mother hadn’t faked a headache the night he was conceived”
― Victoria Selman, Snakes and Ladders

“And every morning I still experience a nanosecond of amnesia; sweet while it lasts, cruel when it lifts.”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“Embrace the suck, MacKenzie. How many times did I have to tell myself that keeping a distance from him was the only way to keep him safe? Head vs Heart, toughest battle there is.”
― Victoria Selman, Snakes and Ladders

“FEAR has two meanings. Fuck Everything and Run OR Face Everything and Rise.”
― Victoria Selman, Nothing to Lose

“Know when to quit. It’s a sign of strength, not weakness.”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“someone’s giving an honest account of their whereabouts, they’ll quickly become angry if you suggest they’re lying. And they won’t deviate from what they’re saying. If they’re giving it to you straight, the truth is all they’ve got.”
― Victoria Selman, Snakes and Ladders

“He sprinkles them with olive oil.”
― Victoria Selman, Blood for Blood

“But we’d only heard one side of the story and, as Jack says, there are always three versions. His, hers and the truth.”
― Victoria Selman, Nothing to Lose

“Would light would it show us in?”
― Victoria Selman, Truly, Darkly, Deeply