Simon Wood > Quotes

“Post-traumatic stress is a powerful force with the ability to change us. Even the strongest of us.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Last night, she’d looked like a million bucks. Tonight, she looked like fifty with change.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“People can’t function without forgiveness. It’s why the Catholics have confession and the Jews have Yom Kippur. You recognize your failings, and you move on.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“To all the people who fought back.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Rebecca, see if you can get a twenty on Alex Hammond. I”
― Simon Wood, Paying the Piper

“stooping”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Post-traumatic stress is a powerful force with the ability to change us.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“People might deserve a derogatory epithet, but it showed the mudslinger in just as bad a light.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“infallible.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Moonlight shone through the window, cutting through the room at an angle.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Money was the root of all evil and recklessness was the root of all PTSD.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“you are not responsible for the world’s ills. You can’t carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That’s the road to self-destruction.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Come on, Abby,” said Kate. “You’re going to sit with Uncle Bobby while Daddy and I talk to the policemen.” Abby slid off the hospital bed and took her mother’s hand. “Is Bob here?” Josh asked. Bob Deuce had been Josh’s friend since they were twelve.”
― Simon Wood, Accidents Waiting to Happen

“thumb over his shoulder at the restaurant where Zoë and”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“surmised”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Dr. Green turned his head to indicate two people waiting expectantly by the door to the private room. Josh felt a sense of relief as he saw the faces of his wife and six-year-old daughter. Abby smiled brightly at her father and rushed to his bedside, her straw-colored ponytail bouncing.”
― Simon Wood, Accidents Waiting to Happen

“there was just herself to count on. That was a sad indictment of her life.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it. This attitude was the main reason the cats and dogs here at the shelter amazed him so much. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“I loved the sound of the word ‘we’. Disaster got averted and tyrants got defeated with the word ‘we’.”
― Simon Wood, Hot Seat

“He stared into the car to see the face of a child-killer, but saw only a blur. The”
― Simon Wood, Paying the Piper

“but everything was a fog. When she tried to focus on a single”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“Invariably, people encountered the police at the worst moments in their life. It made all the difference if the officer was viewed as someone who was there to help.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“from”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“He reached across the couch for the remote and switched channels. He couldn’t bear to watch yet another show about the appalling truth he’d uncovered. The subject had been done to death by the television networks, but they wouldn’t let it go. He couldn’t go anywhere without seeing the words viatical and shocking used in the same sentence. It would be on cereal boxes next. He stopped channel-hopping when he came to the cartoons. He couldn’t see Tom and Jerry selling a viatical settlement to Butch.”
― Simon Wood, Accidents Waiting to Happen

“He followed the sound of her worried voice into the living room. She sat on the couch in the living room with Abby and Wiener in descending order of size. The image reminded him of Russian dolls. Like those dolls, the three of them wore blank looks. The policemen from the hospital, Officers Brady and Williams, stood a few feet from the couch, in front of the fireplace. “Oh, hi,” Josh said.”
― Simon Wood, Accidents Waiting to Happen

“epithet,”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

“This attitude was the main reason the cats and dogs here at the shelter amazed him so much. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.”
― Simon Wood, The One That Got Away