The Veiled Quotes

“One day you’ll find that the darkness in the world fills your soul completely and you have nowhere else to turn. God will be the only one there to care for you.”
― Victor Methos, The Veiled

“poster of Howard Zinn hung in front of him with the quote, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
― Victor Methos, The Veiled

“feel like the world’s a worse place than when I was a kid. Like it’s this ocean of darkness that just goes on and on. But it’s never revealed to everyone, or even to most people. The way the world really exists is veiled. I’ve seen what it really is, first in war and then on the streets as a cop.”
― Victor Methos, The Veiled

“though it was like cutting a branch off of a rotten tree instead of digging out the roots.”
― Victor Methos, The Veiled

“Beautiful women were seen by the world as a commodity to be used up, despite the perception sold to the public that it was an ideal to strive for.”
― Victor Methos, The Veiled

“He didn’t understand the need so many people had to keep expanding, to keep looking to the future and avoiding the present. He had read once that the average person spent forty-seven percent of their time lost in thought, completely absent from the present moment. Life wasn’t that long—having now lived what was almost certainly more than half of his own, he knew how short it was. Spending nearly half that time in one’s own head seemed a tragedy, given that most people were always worrying about things that would never come to fruition. People, it seemed, could do anything but be happy with what they had.”
― Victor Methos, The Veiled