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“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You either love who you are onstage, or you love who you are offstage. Nobody does both.”
― Angelo Marcos, The Artist

“Grief is a virus – festering and lying dormant, then breaking through and decimating you, destroying you from the inside. It’s the bite of a black widow; you never see it coming, you never get a hold of it, and it always gets away. But the bite itself remains, stinging and poisoning and bringing you to the brink of death.”
― Angelo Marcos, The Artist

“This isn’t about killing people for fun. This is about justice. Justice for all the people whose lives end up broken and wasted, because the thing they’ve been looking for all their life doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist! Even when they get it it’s not real! Doesn’t anyone see?”
― Angelo Marcos, The Artist

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

“Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Being a functional member of society is overrated. It’s also surprisingly easy to fake.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“You’re very eloquent, Nick,” Harold suddenly said to me, leaning across from the other side of the circle. “You certainly have a way with words. What is it that you do for a living?”

“I’m a stand-up comedian,” I said, wiping the tears from my face. “I make people laugh.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“A doctor once told me about a patient with OCD who’d been stopped from using the sink as a way to prevent him washing his hands all the time. He’d ended up kneeling over a toilet bowl, dunking his hands in the filthy water in a bid to keep them clean. That’s OCD in a nutshell – rituals which are illogical even to the person doing them, but which we find impossible to stop.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“You are Nicholas Ivanek-Williams. But I’m guessing you don't use the whole name when on stage, yeah?”
“That's right.”
“Because you wouldn’t sound like a comedian, yeah?”
“I suppose.”
“Because you'd sound like an eastern European lawyer?”
“What’s wrong with being eastern European?”
He looked around theatrically as if playing to some invisible audience.
“Nothing,” he said innocently, “I was just saying that’s what you’d sound like in the milliseconds between your name being called out by the compere and the audience making their mind up about you. Interesting that you didn’t ask what’s wrong with being a lawyer though, isn’t it? You just focused on the other part.”
“I don’t like lawyers.”
“Nobody likes lawyers, Nick. Even lawyers don’t like lawyers, that’s why they’re always trying to put each other off by wearing those silly wigs.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“Comedy is just anger with a dash of humour thrown in to cover the rage”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“So what came first, do you reckon, the horrible thoughts forcing you to carry out rituals like a junkie, or the need to make people laugh? Or maybe they’re two sides of the same coin. The vivid imagination causing thoughts which make you want to cry is the same imagination that can find humour in situations other people would call ‘mundane’…”
“It’s occurred to me, yes.”
“Oh, it’s more than occurred to you, Nicky boy. You’re an intelligent man who has an affliction which affects your mind, so you’ve definitely thought about it. A lot, I bet. I’d like to tell you something Nicky, but I want to make sure I’ve got your full attention. Do I?”
“Yes,” I replied in spite of myself.
He leaned even closer, as if we were either co-conspirators in some scheme or lovers about to kiss.
“We’re all victims. All of us. Victims of our own minds...”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“The only thing that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries.”
― Dean Koontz

“You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.”
― Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell

“In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.”
― Dean Koontz, The City

“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

“Nick, the best thing with this – with everything – is to accept it. Don’t fight against it, don’t deny it. Sometimes, you've got to just take the hit. Let me tell you something everybody seems to forget. Sometimes the good guys win. Bad things happen to good people, yeah, but bad things also happen to bad people. And good things happen to good people too. Don't let life beat that truth out of you.”
― Angelo Marcos, Defence Mechanism

“The bigger question here is about whether you will do what you need to do if it comes down to it. You seem to think aggression belongs to people like me, not realising the same anger runs through your veins. It burns sometimes, doesn't it?”
― Angelo Marcos, Defence Mechanism