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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“A poor start in life did not dictate the acts of the future.”
― 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

“Tact and diplomacy had been invented by someone with too much time on their hands.”
― 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

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

“Back in the day belonging to a group was essential to survival. People hunted and cooked in groups so it’s kind of ingrained in our DNA,’ she said. ‘If you consider that we all belong to some kind of group whether it’s family, friends, co-workers, religion. There’s a need to be part of something greater than ourselves.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“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

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

“resemblance to”
― Angela Marsons, Play Dead

“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

“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

“but it was arrogant to ignore the point of view of another person just because you don’t agree with them. I never forgot that lesson”
― Angela Marsons, The Forgotten Woman