Victim Quotes - Page 21

• What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Jobs, People

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• I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me, and I’d been stun gunned. The cobwebs cleared, and I discounted stun gunning. “What happened?” I asked Morelli. “You fainted.” “That’s ridiculous.” “I agree, but if someone sent me a dead woman I might faint, too.” He was down on one knee, bending over me. “Are you ready to get up?” “I need a moment.” “Don’t take too long. People will think I’m proposing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Revenge, Thinking, Long

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.619, Bantam

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• We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

  Nora Roberts

  Important, Deals, Handle

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Partners”, p.94, Penguin

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• The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.447, Graphic Arts Books

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• We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

  Richard Paul Evans

  Mistake, Fate, Loss

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 03, 2011

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• Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

  Glen Duncan

  Heart, Loving Someone, Laughing

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• Be a victor , not a victim.

  Joel Osteen

  "Click ‘Pray’ to Pray: How Evangelical Megapastor Joel Osteen Is Saving Souls With Facebook" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

  Gregory Maguire

  Air, Crucible, Crisis

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• The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Desert, Belief

  "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Varieties of Envy)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1995.

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• I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Grief, College, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Self, Safety, Heartfelt

  "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.

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• There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Long, People

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• There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

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• There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Hatred, Needs

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• Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pancakes, Coyotes, Cold

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• Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

  Paulo Coelho

  Poor, Difficulty, Adventurer

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• We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Hatred, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Thinking, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

  Joseph Heller

  Trying, Habit, Break

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Blood, Done, World

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• Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

  F. Sionil José

  Suicide, Past, Life Is

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• When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he’s near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn’t going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lying, Animal, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what are the chances?" Jazza: "I bet all of the victims thought that." Rory: "But still, what are the chances?" Jazza: "Well, I imagine they are several million to one." Jerome: "Not that high. You're only dealing with a small part of London. And while there might be a million or more people in that area, the Ripper is probably focusing on women, because all of the original victims were women. So halve that--" Jazza: "You really need another hobby.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Serial Killer, Hobbies

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• I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Littles, Might, Bits

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.246, Random House

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