The Silent Watcher Quotes

“I hadn’t learned yet that the most important word to be able to say to family is no. That lesson only comes after heartache I hadn’t yet experienced.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Smart people only talk when they have something to say, not just to say something.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“world didn’t discriminate in its cruelty, breaking the gentle and the kind just as easily as the cruel and the wicked.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“floor”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Though smaller, he was so much stronger than her.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“I don’t think so. I believe there’s a God watching over us and that we return to him when we die. Why he lets the horrible things happen that happen, and why good people are always suffering, I don’t know.” “Why do you assume suffering is bad? Maybe it makes us what we are? I wouldn’t blame your God for that.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Church services were entertaining at first. They’d hold serpents ’cause of a line in Mark that says, ‘They will pick up serpents with their bare hands and the poison will not hurt them.’ They’d hold diamondback rattlesnakes, six or seven of ’em at a time, and sing hymns.” Lazarus was quiet a moment. “I saw them lifting snakes and I thought, These people really believe. They have skin in the game. These people know.” He took a slow drag from the vape. “I found out they defanged the snakes before they brought them to church.” “That seems like a smart choice.” He looked at her now and said, “If they really believed it, they would’ve left the fangs in.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“got”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Even a spark can set forests on fire if you keep it alive long enough.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“I can assume the worst about folks, be mistaken, and nothin’ happens. You assume the best and end up with the worst, that’s a onetime mistake.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Sometimes, doing nothing solved problems in a way concerted effort couldn’t.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Now, he sees the whole world as a puzzle to be solved rather than something to be experienced. Don’t make the same mistake.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“bathers, accompanied only by a gentle whispering of the trees.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“DPCD”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“delusional personality conduct disorder?”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“guardian ad litem,”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“We have enough time in this life to become exceptional at one thing. So we have to choose our one thing carefully. Lazarus didn’t choose his carefully. Now, he sees the whole world as a puzzle to be solved rather than something to be experienced. Don’t make the same mistake.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“have a feeling they understood it just fine. People in government tend to ignore the Constitution when it stops them from doing what they want to do.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“My mother lost custody of me when I was nine. A guardian was kind to me when no one else was.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“ichthus”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“3rd Fisherman: I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1st Fisherman: Why, as men do a’land; the great ones eat up the little ones. —William Shakespeare, Pericles, act 2, scene 1”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“I never wanted no kids and got six. Bass and his old lady only wanted kids and they got none. Life got a shit sense a’ humor, don’t it?”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“can assume the worst about folks, be mistaken, and nothin’ happens. You assume the best and end up with the worst, that’s a onetime mistake.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Humanity’s a blind man feeling an elephant’s trunk and calling it a snake.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Do you know if you’re a millionaire, you could spend one thousand dollars a day and your money would last you a few years. If you’re a billionaire, you could spend a thousand a day for twenty-seven hundred years.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“All our knowledge of the universe comes from studying galaxies, but they’re speeding away. Eventually we won’t be able to see ’em, won’t even know they’re there. We’ll need a new truth, and humanity’s never been good at abandoning old ones.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“How much time?” Lazarus said. “I don’t know. Time. It’ll be done when it’s done. And don’t give me lip, son. I was wearing a badge while your daddy was in diapers. Just kidding, you’re beautiful. Don’t tell your giant to hurt me. Now get the hell out of my house.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“People in government tend to ignore the Constitution when it stops them from doing what they want to do.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“If you want to stop future crime, he said, make sure that kids don’t feel like criminals.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher