The Hallows Quotes

“That’s what causes uncontrollable anger: unreasonable expectation.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Nothing is ever as good as you think it’s gonna be, and nothing is ever as bad as you think it’s gonna be.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“I always watched these videos not with an eye toward the truth—the truth didn’t matter—but for what a jury would see.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Ah. Claiming someone is a lesbian. The last refuge of the failed suitor.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“You watch football and build cars, while taking care of a ranch. Why do I get the feeling I’m the girl in this relationship?” “That’s because you’ve bought into the lies about what a woman is. We’re not trophies and we’re not princesses.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Come on. I have a few more people for you to insult.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Being mayor of anywhere has perks. Like buying worthless property and then getting it zoned commercial and selling it for ten times what you bought it for.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Beauty is the trait that lasts the shortest amount of time and brings the least satisfaction, and it’s all men can think about.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“perception is what molds emotion,”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“She took a sip of the wine and said, “That’s the best wine I’ve ever had.” “Maybe, maybe not. The question is, if I had told you that wine was eight dollars a bottle at the grocery store, would you still think that?” “Probably not.” “Perception is everything. Forget reality. Reality has no place in life or in a courtroom.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Most of my life had been spent acting like someone else. They say that depression is your mask, telling you that you’re tired of the role you’ve been putting on for everyone else.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“There was a man in ancient Rome—a rich man, friend of the emperor—named Pollio. A slave dropped a glass container at a party once, and Pollio threw him into a pool filled with eels that ate him alive. Pollio was a man who lived in a world where he didn’t expect glass to break. That’s what causes uncontrollable anger: unreasonable expectation. And no one has more expectations about how the world works than the rich, and when it doesn’t work that way, they lose it.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“thought Sisyphus must be miserable, but my father said no, he was happy because he decided to be. He decided that the one thing the gods couldn’t take from him was his choice to be happy. It’s like that for us. We try to find happiness out there, and we just end up suffering for it.” He took my hand. His skin was clammy and his fingers trembled. “You have to choose your own happiness, Tatum. I had the chance with your mother, but I went outside our marriage and looked for happiness there, and you know what I found? Nothing. Nothing is ever as good as you think it’s gonna be, and nothing is ever as bad as you think it’s gonna be. Don’t make the mistake I made.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Do you know the myth of Sisyphus?” “What?” “Sisyphus. The Greek tragedy.” “I’ve heard it, once or twice.” He swallowed and had to take a breath. “My father told it to me once. He said Sisyphus died but came back to earth for revenge. He was supposed to return to hell but realized, only after he was already dead, how beautiful the trees were, or wading into a cool stream, or the birds and the sunlight on his face. So he refused to return, and the gods punished him. For eternity, he would have to push a rock up a hill, and it would keep tumblin’ back down. He would never be able to get to his goal.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Never know how angels show up in your life to lead you down the right path, do you?”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“There’s some argument that we’re actually not the dominant species on the planet. Wheat is. That wheat forced us to abandon our hunter-gatherer lifestyle and to cultivate it in huge quantities over most of the earth and to make sure it’s the main part of our diet so we’ll always have it around. And the worst part is it’s forced us to live in close proximity so we’ll be better at cultivating it.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“have a feeling that you only want what you don’t have, and once you trade for it, you realize it’s worse than what you got now.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Gotta be tough and take some pain. Take small pain now and you can handle big pain later when it comes.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“I felt anger, and I didn’t want to. Anger was temporary insanity, and it was the worst of all the emotions for a trial attorney to feel, since it blocked all reason and clearheadedness.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Cell phones and self-driving cars don’t change human nature.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“in thought. She struck me as someone who lived mostly inside her own head, for”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows

“Life’s a helluva trip, ain’t it? It takes years to look back and realize you should’ve gone left when you went right.” “Maybe. Or maybe there’s only one road, and it takes you where it takes you.”
― Victor Methos, The Hallows