An Invisible Client

by Victor Methos

Justice will not come until those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Under the law, a person was valued at exactly how much money that person could earn. Anyone who hadn’t gone to an Ivy League school, pulled in at least six figures, or had a family business waiting for them was what PI lawyers called “an invisible client”—one who lived and breathed but didn’t officially exist.

“Remember one thing above anything else: if you say something confidently enough, people will believe you. Even if you’re wrong.”

“The world’s always been a mess. You can’t change that. You just have to straighten out your little corner of it.”

When you give up, it’s not yourself you hurt the worst. It’s everybody who cares about you. I would’ve hurt her worse than anyone’s ever hurt her in her life.”

The people who love you and look up to you are your power, not the money.

Plato wrote that the gods were jealous of man’s powers after the days of creation, that we had four arms and four legs and two heads, and were full of love and intelligence and grit, so they split us in half and threw our halves all around the earth. The point of life, then, is to find your other half and become whole again. The tragedy of life is if you find them and don’t hold on.”