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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Just as some people learn to live without a limb, a sociopath must learn to live without a conscience.”
― Angela Marsons, Evil Games

“You know, Guv, if it’s true that Tolkien named the dark lands of Mordor after the Black Country, he was surely looking this way.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“she had become the most popular dancer at the venue. She received on average three requests for private dances per night and at two hundred pounds a time it was not to be sniffed at. She knew she was the anti-Christ for some feminists and to that she raised her middle finger.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“She had no bias towards or against anyone and was generally rude to everyone.”
― Angela Marsons, Deadly Cry

“resemblance to”
― Angela Marsons, Play Dead

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

“Kim stared hard at the plate. It was a look that persuaded most of her colleagues to bend to her will. Unfortunately it didn't work on biscuits. The recipe and instruction list had been taken from a website for kids and she had followed it to the letter. She was sure she had. The website also contained pictures sent in by twelve-year-olds who were proud of their end result. Kim would not be photographing hers. The title of the product said 'rock cakes' but hers did not look like rocks, they looked like oversize Frisbees. The dollops of mixture once placed in the oven had spread, as though trying to crawl away and escape. Cooking was her nemesis. She had tried complex dishes that took more concentration than a Mensa quiz and the end result had spilled across the plate like a liquefied stew.”
― Angela Marsons, Lost Girls

“Solving any puzzle involved methodical, logical stages. First came the eagerness to get started, followed by an understanding of the enormity of the challenge ahead. Next comes the focused concentration required to make headway, the commitment to achieving the end goal.”
― Angela Marsons, Evil Games

“Kim knew first hand that survivor guilt had the power to shape a mind; and that was why she prayed her own boxes never got opened.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Prison is for other people’s children.”
― Angela Marsons, Evil Games

“Sometimes the whole point of therapy wore her down.  Sometimes, just occasionally, she wanted an answer from someone else.  She didn’t want to dig and dissect her feelings.  She just wanted them gone.”
― Angela Marsons, Dear Mother

“Tact and diplomacy had been invented by someone with too much time on their hands.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream

“Every single profession is fraught with inconsistencies. It is the exception that often proves the rule. I believe passionately in what I do, but do I accept that not everyone will behave the way I’d like them to? Of course I do, because that is human nature.”
― Angela Marsons, Evil Games

“A poor start in life did not dictate the acts of the future.”
― Angela Marsons, Silent Scream