Vanished Quotes

“Drugs were glamorized in celebrity culture, but as he watched her turn into little more than a heap of conscious meat, with no direction, emotion, or reason, he wondered why anybody would want to turn into that.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“You’re stuck in life where you are, no matter where you run to.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“if someone tells you they know the secrets of the universe and all it takes is sacrifice, you run the other way. ’Cause you can bet your ass that sacrifice will be yours, not theirs.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“But kids nowadays were far different from when he’d been growing up.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“Man is the cruelest animal. ― Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“women marry men hoping they’ll change and men marry women hoping they won’t. Ain’t that the shit.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“He wondered how people found what they would enjoy the most. If someone would really love to be a chef but had never cooked, how would they know that was their chosen path in life? Maybe he had a path, too. Something he was meant to do that never came to fruition. Painter, perhaps, or writer… revolutionary.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“It’s a type of binding oath they have. Everyone in the frat has to rape her, that way none of them can go to the cops because they were part of it, too. Keeps their silence. It started in the Ivy League. The rich kids would invite the poor ones from other schools and rape one. Degradation, man. It’s what it’s always been about.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“Poor neighborhoods were all unique in their own ways, but rich ones were all the same.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“You believe in God?” “Personal God? No, man.” “Well, I guess there ain’t no evidence of it for a man like you.” “If there were, what would be the point of faith? That’s the problem with creation science, man. If they ever actually do get some good evidence of God’s existence, they’ll destroy their religion. Faith won’t be required anymore.” “What about you, though? You got faith?” “I got faith that people will screw you in the end if they get the chance. That’s what I got faith in.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“He tried talking to them about it, but their insights into themselves were clouded with layers of rationalizations and denial. Most of them hadn’t the slightest idea what they were doing”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“Personal intelligence, the ability to read and understand people, was, in his view, the most important type of intelligence. But they didn’t teach it in college, and they didn’t measure it in IQ tests.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“You ever get jealous of the rich?” “No, man. They’re as miserable as everybody else. Life is one ridiculous thing after another, and it doesn’t matter if you’re homeless or a millionaire. You go through the cycle enough times, you start sensing the futility of it. How absurd it is that we take ourselves so seriously.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished

“Some research suggests that excessive sex actually lowers IQ, in males.” “Hm.”
― Victor Methos, Vanished