Victim Quotes - Page 19

• There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Loyalty, Children, Fall

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.203, Penguin

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• Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Cutting, Space

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they’ll only make Thanatos mad. Regular fire won’t hurt him. I have this really neat gelatinous goo that comes out with my fire and it squirts my victims so that it don’t come off. Wanna see it? (Simi) No! (Zarek/Astrid) No? I don’t like that word. (Simi) We love you, Simi. We’re just scared of your goo. (Astrid) Oh, that I understand. Okay, you can live. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Nice, Love You

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• Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Book, Healing, Drug

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• And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Evil, Attractive, Forbidden

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• It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again. Page 210

  Lisa See

  Mean, Long, Starting Over

  Lisa See (2009). “Shanghai Girls: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

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• In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

  Philip K. Dick

  War, Trying, Sides

  Philip K. Dick (1979). “Time Out of Joint”

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• A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

  Jack Johnson

  Lonely, People, Together

  Song: If I Had Eyes, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008

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• I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

  Rachel Vincent

  Justice, Survivor, Vengeance

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Shift”, p.126, MIRA

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• He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Way, Classic, Arrangements

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• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

  Johnny Cash

  Long, Black, Politics

  Song: Man In Black

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• Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

  J. K. Rowling

  Past, Age, Firsts

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• It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.33, Routledge

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• You said you were a victim. That's why...that's why ultimately, you and I aren't matched for each other. In spite of everything that's happened, I've never though of myself that way. Being a victim means you're powerless. That you won't take action. Always...always I've done something to fight for myself...for others. No matter what.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Fighting, Done

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• Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Letting Go, Past, Survivor

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.69, Delacorte Press

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• Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

  Julian Assange

  Men, Generous Man, Nurture

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

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• Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1427, Penguin

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• I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Mean, Knowing

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• I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Growing, Happens

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• If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

  David Mitchell

  War, Firsts, Efficiency

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• I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

  James Thurber

  Mistake, Firefly, Two

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• I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Father, Mistake, Teenager

  "Danse Macabre". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2006.

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• Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn’t mean that’s what you had to be.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Mean

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