The Unseen Quotes

“Maybe caveman times. When life was just about getting food and getting shelter and nothin’ else mattered. You had sex and ate and shit, and that was it. I bet they were happy.” “Maybe, or maybe they were miserable and died early.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“He drove with the windows up and the radio off. Muffling the rest of the world was better than having to listen to it. It didn’t have much to tell him anyhow.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“Though Baudin had the same urges any man did, he had always been better at controlling them than most were. Sex, to him, was a function that occasionally needed to be engaged in, but shouldn’t run a man’s life. In the end, it clouded thinking, and that was something he wouldn’t allow unless it was necessary.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“sometimes people had to be in pain before they could heal.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“He had shielded Heather from the world as best he could, and in doing so, he might’ve taken away situations that could’ve made her stronger.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“It’s amazing how much mind pollution we have to put up with,” Baudin said. “What d’ya mean?” “Billboards, commercials, emails, texts, mailers… there’s no break. To corporations, we’re nothing but objects to be manipulated. They don’t see us as people.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“Pain was the body’s way of telling the brain the body had an injury. Dixon knew that. But what was psychological pain? His body trying to tell him to deal with something that was bleeding inside?”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“Standing in front of the door, he inhaled the cool evening air and tried to discern the scents he was taking in. Smells were always wafting on the air, whether real or imagined. Sometimes he wondered how much of life was actually in his head and how much really existed.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“He was smiling, but Baudin could see behind his eyes, could see what drove him. Baudin thought that if he could see what drove a person, their lives would fall into place. Everything around them would make sense. Humans, he believed, weren’t random. They were just controlled by forces that seemed random.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“But if good people sit by, evil’ll win.”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen

“My grandfather woke up to a beer and fried bacon and sausage every morning, and he lived to be ninety-five. Outlived every vegetarian, vegan, and whatever the fuck I’ve ever heard of.” “Doesn’t mean he felt good doing it.” He paused. “You know the Hindus think animals have prana, energy, and if an animal is killed, the energy rots. It turns dark. And when we eat the meat, we ingest that dark energy.” “Yeah, well, maybe they just haven’t been over to Pat’s Barbeque and had their ribs.” Dixon”
― Victor Methos, The Unseen