Victor Methos > Quotes

“You feel other people’s pain deeply.” “Well don’t know bout all that but I know what it’s like ta lose a daughter. They gonna be in a haze for a long time ta come. It’ll be all they think bout.” “Does it get easier over time?” “No, it don’t. But you learn ta function anyway.”
― Victor Methos, Black Sky

“You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due process, no lawyers. They may do with us what they wish. Fear is a government's greatest weapon. With it, they can convince a people that they need to abandon their freedom. In exchange, they get safety. Of course, you just trade one monster for another, but by the time the people realize this, it is too late. -- Excerpt from Superhero.”
― Victor Methos

“We’re told by this system that you are the car you drive or the size of your house or the number in your bank account. We’re taught from an early age by advertising agencies that we’re only as good as the wealth we have. It isn’t true. We’re not their slaves. We’re people. We’re not numbers on a spreadsheet. We aren’t disposable if we don’t make enough. This is our country, not theirs.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Show your feelings, and you’re just an emotional woman that can’t be trusted. Don’t show them, and you’re an icy bitch that can’t be trusted. Take your pick.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Secrets had the power to make people stick together against the rest of the world. On”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“It’s trivial stuff, Ma.” “No,” she would reply. “Nothing’s trivial, sweetheart. You have to love all of it.”
― Victor Methos, Chains of Darkness

“A child ignored by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. —African proverb”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“I’m not a Marxist by any means, but he had a point when he said that philosophers just want to interpret the world when the point is to change it.” “My”
― Victor Methos, Sin City Homicide

“You wanna know why people are so devastated when things like this happen? Cause they don’t expect it. They expect to be happy. But that ain’t life.”
― Victor Methos, Black Sky

“Every dictator in history has made that same speech, Bob. Hitler thought he was fighting for the greater good, too. Isn’t it odd that the most defenseless always need to be the ones sacrificed for the greater good?”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Justice will not come until those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. — Solon, 560 BC”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“I hadn’t learned yet that the most important word to be able to say to family is no. That lesson only comes after heartache I hadn’t yet experienced.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“We hear and see what they want us to hear and see. You think some drunk slut in Hollywood is news? They want us distracted. Not paying attention. Bread and circuses distracted the Romans two millennia ago, and it hasn’t changed that much since, just different bread and different circuses.’ “Luther”
― Victor Methos, Scourge

“That’s all that matters—how well you can walk through flames.” They”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“Do you know about twin souls? It’s a theory that we all have a twin soul, a soul identical to ours that we meet out there in our lives when we’re ready. We fall for them because we connect so deeply on a physical, spiritual, and mental level, but the twin soul is not a sexual relationship. Sex is crude. Primitive. The twin soul is far deeper, and the train wrecks of marriages you see are from people trying to make a romantic relationship work with their twin souls, rather than recognizing it’s deeper than that. Your soul mate, who you should be in a romantic relationship with, and your twin soul, who you should be in a spiritual relationship with, are not the same thing. But when you meet your twin soul, it’s like the rest of the world disappears, and there’s nothing you want more than to be with them.” She paused and seemed lost in thought a moment. “I was Edward’s twin soul. You must have really had a hold on him for him to not even be tempted to make love to me.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Your Constitution is the greatest monument to man’s mind in history. It’s a shame no one understands it. It will soon not hold strength in the culture and be done away with.” “Why do you say that?” “When a thing is taken for granted, people believe they can abolish it without consequence. That’s what happened in my country during the Revolution.”
― Victor Methos, Mercy

“Smart people only talk when they have something to say, not just to say something.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Hope was what was left in Pandora’s box. Maybe people’s lives aren’t meant to have hope.”
― Victor Methos, Pestilence

“You’ll come to find as you get older that money loses its luster, and the only thing that matters are the people in your life.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Victor Methos, The Shotgun Lawyer

“It’s a theory that we all have a twin soul, a soul identical to ours that we meet out there in our lives when we’re ready. We fall for them because we connect so deeply on a physical, spiritual, and mental level, but the twin soul is not a sexual relationship. Sex is crude. Primitive. The twin soul is far deeper, and the train wrecks of marriages you see are from people trying to make a romantic relationship work with their twin souls, rather than recognizing it’s deeper than that. Your soul mate, who you should be in a romantic relationship with, and your twin soul, who you should be in a spiritual relationship with, are not the same thing. But when you meet your twin soul, it’s like the rest of the world disappears, and there’s nothing you want more than to be with them.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“That was how powerful judges were, Brigham thought. That they could leave a hundred people at any time and the people would just have to wait for them.”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“Remember one thing above anything else: if you say something confidently enough, people will believe you. Even if you’re wrong.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Hindsight has the power to make us feel like fools,”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“the middle of the night when the rest of the world slept, were the loneliest of the day. The time when she most felt isolated from the world.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Something about that city couldn’t be found elsewhere in the States. It was magical and deadly and depraved in equal doses.”
― Victor Methos, Chains of Darkness

“When he was gone, Angela said, “Why’d you let him off so easy?” “You need to read between the lines. Why would he be afraid of working with the police as a bartender?” She shrugged.”
― Victor Methos, The Murder of Janessa Hennley

“You don’t leave war. Ever. No matter where you go afterward it’s always there with you. You close your eyes and you see it painted on your eyelids. You hear a noise and your guts tighten up like you’ve been shot. There ain’t no gettin’ away from it. Every soldier, whether they make it back or not, dies in the war they fight. “I”
― Victor Methos, Black Sky

“Maybe the point was not to show life how much power it really had.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Do you know the myth of Sisyphus?” “What?” “Sisyphus. The Greek tragedy.” “I’ve heard it, once or twice.” He swallowed and had to take a breath. “My father told it to me once. He said Sisyphus died but came back to earth for revenge. He was supposed to return to hell but realized, only after he was already dead, how beautiful the trees were, or wading into a cool stream, or the birds and the sunlight on his face. So he refused to return, and the gods punished him. For eternity, he would have to push a rock up a hill, and it would keep tumblin’ back down. He would never be able to get to his goal.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows