Angela Marsons > Quotes

“There was an old adage that if you couldn't say anything nice, get the hell away before you said something very wrong.”
― Angela Marsons, Lost Girls

“conscience was no more than the fear of being caught.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Intrinsically selfish in nature, grief was for the living.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Much as they wished to, they knew they were incapable of saving the whole world – but sometimes you just had to deal with what was right in front of you.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“People are normally murdered because of something they have done, something they are doing or something they are going to do.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
― Angela Marsons, Evil Games

“You knew he was growing away from you. You’ve managed to isolate him over the years and get rid of anyone he was close to so that it was just the two of you. Your failure to conceive a child prompted you to pull him even closer. That was bearable as long as you had each other. Just the two of you, but then you saw his text message to Wendy and that was the final straw. You knew you were losing him.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Kim era infastidita dal fatto che l'intestazione dicesse ancora VITTIMA NUMERO UNO. Una volta quelle ossa erano state di una persona. Una persona in carne e ossa, magari con una voglia sulla pelle che la distingueva da tutti gli altri. Una persona con un volto e delle espressioni che erano solo sue. Non un semplice mucchio di ossa. Quella ragazza aveva trascorso nell'anonimato già fin troppo tempo e Kim detestava non essere ancora in grado di darle un nome”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“my experience, a class is filled with three types of kids on the social spectrum: the introverts, who don’t want to interact at all; the extroverts, who want all the attention; and the ones in the middle that would like to interact more but hold themselves back. Those are the ones you aim for, the”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Finalmente capiva l'empatia che provava per quella ragazza che conosceva solo da pochi giorni. Lucy era una combattente. Non si rassegnava di fronte alle carte che il destino le aveva assegnato. Ogni giorno lottava per vivere, contro tutti i pronostici. Quel giorno avrebbe potuto scegliere di non premere il pulsante. Avrebbe potuto cedere alla sua malattia e scegliere la pace eterna ma non l'aveva fatto e c'era solo una cosa che glielo aveva impedito: la speranza”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“On the scale of genuine apologies, I’d rate that at minus seven.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Those same people reported on famine and genocide and the plight of refugees, starving and dying children, and she knew they were made of much sterner stuff than she was.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“First of all, I want to say a huge thank you for choosing to read Twisted Lies, the fourteenth instalment of the Kim Stone series, and to many of you for sticking with Kim Stone and her team since the very beginning.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Intrinsically selfish in nature, grief was for the living. It was a measure of how keenly one felt their own personal loss, and in some cases, as Kim knew, their regret.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Please help. Both staff and patients are sworn to secrecy. This is not the professional clinic it seems to be. Patients are being starved, beaten, humiliated and raped. Please let the authorities know so they can investigate properly. They need to access the third floor. Please help before someone else dies.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Well, rest assured, Doc, that my team will not disregard you because you're a woman. We'll just do it because you talk shit.’ The woman offered her a cold stare. ‘Now, that was a joke.’ ‘Oh, got it, Brummie humour.’ ‘Oh no, no, no and talk like that will get you killed. The Black Country is most definitely not Birmingham.’ And that wasn't a joke.”
― Angela Marsons, Lost Girls

“This was the problem with journeys to her past. Any happy memory led to tragedy and loss. The reason she didn’t visit all that often.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“A guy she’d been seeing for a couple of months had pushed her to the ground during a heated argument. He had been apologetic and remorseful afterwards. She had forgiven him but had been ever aware afterwards that he had introduced something new into the relationship.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Quella stessa giustizia in cui tanto credeva, aveva deluso una persona che invece avrebbe dovuto proteggere: Questo Kim non l'avrebbe mai dimenticato. Aveva convinto Laura Yates a fidarsi di lei e del sistema che rappresentava, e ora non riusciva a scollarsi di dosso la sensazione che Laura fosse stata delusa e abbandonata. Dalla giustizia e anche da lei.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“I was told that the body is no more than a jacket which gets cast off when it’s no longer needed.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Their killer knew where every person in the witness protection scheme lived.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Because some people have so much hate inside them it affects everything they do, everything they say,’ Kim answered. ‘It eats at them and makes them ugly. They feed off victory. Every little triumph gives them energy and power because then their hate has had effect. It’s had an impact. It has triumphed.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“There was no doubt that Jacob knew they were on to him, so why come back at all? What had prompted”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Twelve hours ago, she’d been on the cusp of leaving this team behind forever, and now she was belly laughing cos Penn had invented a whole new reality.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“When I need someone to tell me how I should be feeling I’ll be sure to let you know.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Once started, Ariane had talked openly about the abuse and her feelings. She had said that she couldn’t see how she would ever trust a man again. That she would always swallow her own opinions for fear she might be physically attacked for answering back. Between the tears, she had explained how she had spent years trying to understand what it was within her that had given him the right to treat her in such a way.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Perfection isn’t real. It is only the top layer beneath which the ugliness lies.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“steps”
― Angela Marsons, Child's Play

“lasting effect is that any memory we bring to”
― Angela Marsons, Lost Girls

“To be fair, they appear to have done the guy a lot of good.’ ‘Living with his not parents in his mid-thirties, odd-jobbing for neighbours and obsessing over a girl half his age?’ Stacey queried.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves