The Good Samaritan Quotes

“Because when you’re not considered to be a threat, you can get away with much, much more.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“You're stronger than us. Once you find your anchor never let go of it. No matter what.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“If it was cancer or a heart condition that had killed Charlotte, people might have related to me better, because many people have lost someone to one of those illnesses. But when it’s an invisible problem like mental health or suicide, people aren’t sure how to talk about it. They’d rather say nothing than end up saying something insensitive, stupid or becoming tongue-tied. It made for a lonelier life for me, though.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“I guess it was easier to hide her sadness behind the written word than to disguise the emptiness in her voice.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Sometimes days can pass and I realise I haven’t had a proper conversation in almost a week.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“I no longer had any choice in what to do next. I knew I had to go and see the only person who could bring an end to all of this, and beg the woman who killed my wife and baby to show me mercy.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.’ —Muhammad Ali”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Once you find your anchor, never let go of it. No matter what.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“So much of what you believe – or what you have convinced yourself to be true – can be flipped on its head quicker than you can ever imagine.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“It only took a couple of terms at the University of Sunderland before I understood that once you strip away a town's facade, they're all the same underneath.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“For the more vulnerable out there, once the darkness falls, so do their barriers. Night-time is their enemy, because with fewer visible distractions there’s more opportunity to dwell on how hopeless their lives have become.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“When a person is breathing their last, everything they have done in their life, every success or failure they have ever enjoyed or suffered, no longer matters because we are all equal. Good or bad, saint or sinner, you or me, one day we will all be on a level playing field.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“With his brown chinos, white jacket and red hair he resembled a raspberry ice cream.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“If I wasn’t crying, I was numb. If I wasn’t numb, I was suffocating. If I wasn’t suffocating, I was crying. And so on and so on. A never-ending circle of shittery.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Nothing but the sound of their last breaths and the coastal wind howling through their phones as they fell five hundred and thirty feet into the water below.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“I watched as Ryan’s fists clenched ever-so-slightly and he shifted his eyes towards mine. ‘There’s a reason they call depression a silent killer.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“I began my mindfulness exercises and focused on how the water felt against my skin, how my toes felt as I raised my feet and they came into contact with the bubbles on the surface, and the pressure of the tub against my back. I focused on my breathing and allowed it to become slower and deeper, letting my tummy rise and fall instead of my back and shoulders. Then, as I was at my most relaxed, I pushed my bum forward, opened my mouth, slipped my head underwater and took the biggest gulp of water I could until it flooded my lungs. My brain’s immediate reaction was to force myself to the surface and cough the water out, but I fought hard against it and remained underneath, thrashing about like a fish caught in a net.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Мета весілля полягає не лише в тому, аби молодята присвятили одне одному своє життя, але й у тому, щоб об’єднати дві родини.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“For the briefest of moments, I could see myself becoming like her, surrounded by people but so desperately alone, too set in her ways to take a risk. It scared me to death.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“His breath was wheezy and crackly, too weak for asthma and more likely to be emphysema. The poor bastard really was going to be better off dead.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“I’d known at first sight when she started as a volunteer two years earlier that we were unlikely to become friends. Everything about her appearance offended me,”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“I flicked through the library to choose from one of a dozen eBooks I’d downloaded but had yet to start reading. As a rule, novels bore me. The concentration it takes to remember what you’ve read and who is who as you swipe from one page to the next is arduous. I much prefer downloading a television programme and watching it on my phone instead. But Janine, our branch manager, frowned upon us doing that, one of many petty little dislikes she’d made us aware of since she’d taken charge seven months earlier”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Three sessions later she dismissed her therapist as ‘a dick’ and never returned.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“professionalism.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Ryan’s grin disappeared and he leaned in to whisper in my ear. ‘If I were you, I’d go home and check on Effie as soon as you can. Because I’d hate to think what she might have done after I finished with her this afternoon.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“No, sorry, bro. R.I.P didn’t know anything more about her. Even called the branches myself but kept getting different folk. Like finding a needle in a haystack, eh? Not sure what I’d have said anyway – ‘hi, which one of you bitches wants to listen to me die?’ Lolz. I replied with a ‘lolz’ of my own but nothing about this amused me.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Despite her maturity, Mary was easily hoodwinked; that’s the problem with those who only ever see the good in people. I found it easy to appear saddened as she recounted some of the horrors callers had told her. Secretly, I couldn’t wait until she let go of my reins and I could experience their suffering first-hand.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“Because when you’re not considered to be a threat, you can get away with much, much more”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“she could see me now, she’d be turning in the grave I’d sent her to.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan

“If I could see her, then she could see me.”
― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan