Dying Truth Quotes

“Perfection isn’t real. It is only the top layer beneath which the ugliness lies.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“Back in the day belonging to a group was essential to survival. People hunted and cooked in groups so it’s kind of ingrained in our DNA,’ she said. ‘If you consider that we all belong to some kind of group whether it’s family, friends, co-workers, religion. There’s a need to be part of something greater than ourselves.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“With all that you know of me and what I’ve done your own feeble emotions fail you and influence your logical mind. I don’t have that failing. You want to believe that there’s a part of me that can be reached. Even you, as emotionless and remote as you are, have the exploitable weakness of hope.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“You’ve got to stop thinking that everyone can be saved. It’s what gives people like me even more power to manipulate you.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“What I’m saying, Kim, is that chickenpox doesn’t turn into measles once you reach the age of eighteen. The person I am now is the person I’ve always been since I was capable of a conscious thought. I have never loved anything in my life. I have never felt even a second of guilt for any of my actions, only disappointment at what went wrong. I care about no one and nothing. I have no bonds to anyone and every person I meet exists only to give me what I want.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“But a child won’t be diagnosed with conduct disorder unless they’ve first been diagnosed with oppositional defiant order which is a precursor for conduct disorder.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“Oppositional defiant disorder leads to conduct disorder leads to antisocial personality disorder?”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“your candour is refreshing.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“Children do kill, and they do kill other children. Experts have categorised them into three types. You have the ones that kill for the thrill. They enjoy the hands-on kill, torture beforehand and sometimes mutilation afterwards. Our very own Jon Venables and Robert Thompson fell into that category when they abducted two-year-old Jamie Bulger from that shopping centre.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“sometimes you’re—’ ‘Stace, it’s supposed to be confidential,’ he snapped. ‘But I suppose you’ve scored yourself modestly?’ Stacey nodded. ‘You know, when I was a kid my mum told me never seat yourself at the head of the table, because it’s a longer walk if you’re asked to step down.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“Respect the suit and its cards beyond all others. Keep the secrets of the suit and all its cards. Once a Spade, always a Spade. Always be ready to help a fellow card. Never aid a Club suit card.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“Suicide belongs only to the person that did it. It’s a solitary choice for an individual’s own reasons.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“At first, they had numbed her, deadened her and quietened the destructive thoughts. The shards of anger had been softened as though covered in bubble wrap. Still there but less harmful. But not any more. The sharp edges were piercing the fog and the blackness had returned worse than ever.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“She knew it didn’t really relax her. She knew that she was inhaling carbon monoxide which decreased the amount of blood being delivered to her muscles. But for a brief time it felt like relaxation. She drew heavily on the cigarette allowing the smoke to fill her thirteen-year-old lungs, remembering her first attempt and the coughing fit that had followed. She pictured it swirling around like fog in a clean jar. She didn’t want to smoke. She didn’t want to be dependent on cigarettes or anything, but the tablets were no longer having any effect.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“another formed instantly.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“The need to belong is among the most fundamental of all personality processes.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth

“A child’s problems were no less important or intense than the worries of an adult, she reasoned. It was all relative. A break-up with a boyfriend could mean the end of the world. Feelings of despair were not the sole property of adults.”
― Angela Marsons, Dying Truth