A Killer's Wife Quotes

“Show your feelings, and you’re just an emotional woman that can’t be trusted. Don’t show them, and you’re an icy bitch that can’t be trusted. Take your pick.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Hindsight has the power to make us feel like fools,”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Yeah, there were signs. All of them after. Hindsight is like that. It tricks your brain into thinking life is predictable. It’s not.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“You are not stupid. Look at me… you are not stupid. There’s certain types of men, Tara, that look for the best in people and use it against them. Compassion, forgiveness, a willingness to help, pity, love—that’s what they look for, and they use them against you. But those traits are not weaknesses. They’re strengths, and don’t ever let anyone convince you otherwise.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“hallucinating”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“One of her supervisors, a woman who had retired at fifty and owned a restaurant now, had advised her: “Show your feelings, and you’re just an emotional woman that can’t be trusted. Don’t show them, and you’re an icy bitch that can’t be trusted. Take your pick.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“we choose who to become,”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“her.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Compassion, forgiveness, a willingness to help, pity, love—that’s what they look for, and they use them against you. But those traits are not weaknesses. They’re strengths, and don’t ever let anyone convince you otherwise.” She shook her head. “Kevin’s an idiot. He can barely read. All my intelligence, and someone like him completely fooled me.” “You see the best in people. You can’t blame yourself for that.” She wiped the last of her tears away. “Then you can’t either.” Yardley looked at Tara, and then she took her daughter’s hand and held it as they drove.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“perched on a”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“inevitable discovery.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Davenport-Schmidt theorem”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Baldwin had his other arm pushing on the back of Ketner’s head, completely cutting off the man’s air.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“See, fear is a gift to us—it helps us stay away from danger even when we don’t know danger is there. I’m just curious if you ever had that.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“were deemed unfit for custody, he became the de facto guardian and helped the courts determine what would be best for the child: to live with a relative or to be placed into foster care.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Most guardian ad litems dealt with divorce cases, representing the children during nasty custody disputes, but Wesley worked on only those cases where neither parent was fit to take the child. If both parents”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Guardian ad Litem’s Office, an office set up to protect children in the court system.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Beneath our awareness lies a forest of terrors, of all the darkness of nature. In rare individuals, these ghostly drives break free, and monsters climb out of the abyss. —The Psychopathology of the Subconscious Drives, by Dr.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“What is revealed to us as the conscious mind is no more than a flicker in the flames of the subconscious.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“One thing Yardley’s prior boss had told her before retiring was to never clean up or fetch anything or make copies or answer phones for any of the men in the office. They would see her as a secretary from then on and treat her as such.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“She leaned back in her high-backed chair and said, “My first time in court, the judge yelled at me for wearing pants. He said that women had been given enough rights already and he’d be damned if they looked like men in his court, too.” She sighed.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Hindsight is like that. It tricks your brain into thinking life is predictable.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“You become a good sailor in storms, not in calm seas.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“has the power to make us feel like”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Under Smith v. Gebell, I’m allowed to ask each individual question and have him assert his Fifth Amendment rights on each question separately.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Once invoked, the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in federal court was all or nothing. He could not answer any other questions, or else he would have to answer all of them.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“You see your life this way when you were a kid?” Baldwin said. “What way is that?” she said through the open window. “Dealing with the people we deal with? I always wanted to be a fireman as a kid. Help people. No matter who it was in that fire, I would help them. Seems like you’d have a positive outlook on life, even seeing all the death and tragedy you would see. What we deal with is different. It changes your view of what people are. I just sometimes wonder where I’d be if I had pursued what I wanted to pursue.” “Impossible to know. You might be worse off than you are now.” “Or I might be married with a houseful of kids and working a job I love, rather than chasing freaks and eating fast food every night.” “Thinking that way serves no purpose.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“Everything that happened to you made you stronger. You shouldn’t regret it.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife

“I can see the strength in you. It radiates off your body like fire on a phoenix.”
― Victor Methos, A Killer's Wife